Kathryn James’s blog | Yale Program in the History of the Book

Crossing Things Out - Emily Yankowitz

Crossing Things Out
Emily Yankowitz (Graduate student in History, Yale University)

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several conversations with friends about the frustrations of handwriting a letter and making a mistake along the way.

Ben Card on The Philosophy of Material Texts

The Philosophy of Material Texts - Part One
Ben Card (Graduate student, English, Yale)

Eve Houghton on The Political History of Book History

Book History and the Political History of the Discipline - An Introduction
Eve Houghton (Graduate student in English at Yale University)

My blog series for this semester is on “Book History and the Political History of the Discipline,” the remit of which—broadly conceived—is to think about the role of book history in debates about politics and power within the field of literary studies.