SHARP News

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This is the Spring 1997 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW; THE TITLE AS A TEACHING TOOL; CALL FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; CALL FOR BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; EXHIBITIONS; COURSE ANNOUNCEMENTS; LECTURES AND SEMINARS; BOOK REVIEWS; BRIEF NOTICES; NEW PUBLICATIONS; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW, by Robert L. Patten (pp. 1-2); THE TITLE AS A TEACHING TOOL, by Eleanor Shevlin (pp. 2-4); Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture; American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Conference; History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) 1997 Conference (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); History of the Book in Canada; Re-reading the Past: New Methodologies and Approaches to the History of the Book; School of Criticism and Theory; Sources, Exemplars, and Copy-Texts: Influence and Transmission, 1350-1550; Canterbury Tales Project; Defining Print Cultures for Youth: Children and Reading Since 1876; National School of Information & Library Science; Writing and New Technologies in South-Mediterranean Countries; In Visible Languages: The Visible Dimensions of Print Culture; Macmillan Archive; International Association of Scholarly Publishers (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (pp. 4-5); SHARP/ASA Caucus; American Literature Association (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (pp. 5-6); Edward Clark Seminars; Habits of Reading in Early Modern England; Old English Literature in Its Manuscript Context; 1997 Programme of Events of the Printing Historical Society (LECTURES AND SEMINARS) (p. 6); BOOK REVIEWS, by Brian Hillyard, David Hunter, Lee N. McLaird, Kate Levin, D.R. Woolf (pp. 6-9).