{"title":"The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Bibliography and Essays (review)","authors":"R. Tyler","doi":"10.1353/lac.2006.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lac.2006.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81853,"journal":{"name":"Libraries & culture","volume":"41 1","pages":"280 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lac.2006.0035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66798570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
physical details. Second, the bibliographer must have the technical knowledge to describe each book so precisely that no ambiguity remains as to its identity. Gilmont introduces himself and his bibliographic method in a preface entitled “Lettre à un bibliographe débutant.” Gilmont’s enthusiasm for his subject is evident, and it sets the tone for the rest of the volume. The book is divided into six sections. The first and second sections serve as an introduction to bibliographic research. In the first section, a short introduction to the history of books and printing, Gilmont surveys the history of writing from its origins to the development of the Internet. He highlights two significant periods: the printing revolution of the sixteenth century and the reading revolution of the eighteenth century. The second section addresses the technical aspects of bibliography. Gilmont critiques instructional literature for beginning bibliographers and provides detailed definitions for key terms in bibliographic description. The remaining four sections focus on the study of the book as an historical artifact. In section 3 Gilmont describes a process he calls “book archaeology,” the physical examination of a book. Gilmont shows that an evaluation of a book’s physical properties, such as its typography, can uncover historical information often imperceptible through textual analysis. In section 4 Gilmont highlights the importance of inventories and bibliographies. Using examples from the work of Laurent de Normandie, Robert Estienne, and others, he demonstrates that the study of bibliographies can reveal information about a book’s initial reception and subsequent influence. The fifth section raises issues of book production, preservation, and survival. Gilmont is careful to point out that surviving editions of particular works are indicative only of the conserving institution or person and should not be used to estimate the taste of particular periods. In the final section Gilmont examines some recent bibliographies and demonstrates the stakes involved by showing that the omission of meticulous physical analysis results in fragmentary and partial conclusions. Le Livre & ses secrets is relatively highly specialized and geared toward serious students of early modern bibliography. It nevertheless includes the fundamentals one expects in a guide to bibliography: the history and organizations of books, the means to access them, and the principles of describing them once they are found. In addition, Gilmont’s stress on the importance of orderly, concise, and consistent presentation of information—a need that will become more apparent as the volume and type of publication grow—is an emphasis all bibliographers, experienced or novice, should note.
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Pub Date : 2006-03-14DOI: 10.5040/9780755643219.ch-c
The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 included many texts that could be classified as "religious." In bringing a large body of women's publications together in one place, the Woman's Building's organizers called attention to women's past achievements in order to carve out a larger space for women's public participation. Yet the project of expanding women's sphere coincided imperfectly with the domestic model of piety that most religious publications embodied. This essay explores tensions between the Woman's Building's goals of advancing women's power to shape the public sphere and the library's religious contents.
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This afterword reflects on the articles in this special issue on the Woman's Building Library and observes that each article argues that the books held in the library speak to tensions in women's roles and shifts in women's writing in late-nineteenth-century America. These same tensions evident in the library were also evident in the presentation of history and progress in the Woman's Building and throughout the fair. Seen against this backdrop of the Columbian Exposition and the Woman's Building, the historical fiction included in the library reveals how, in the years leading up to the fair, women themselves participated in presenting narratives of the nation's history.
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This article surveys six African American women whose work was represented in the Woman's Building Library exhibit at the Columbian Exposition: Elleanor Eldridge, Victoria Earle, A. Julia Foote, Frances Harper, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and T. T Purvis. These women's writings cover a variety of genres and styles from novels, short stories, poems, sketches, autobiographies, rhymes, and essays that address such topics as suffrage, partnership, a woman's marital rights, and black enterprise and entrepreneurship.
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This article analyzes the fifty-eight novels by Illinois women selected for the Woman's Building Library and reveals their significance within the larger cultural context. The Illinois fiction provides an important example of the way a culture thinks, speaks, and plans for itself at a particular historical moment. The novels are especially relevant to understanding the religious beliefs, social practices, and economic and political environment that produced them. Yet the Illinois fiction is not a mere artifact that reflects its period. It is also serious literary work that calls the assumptions of the later nineteenth century, and our own assumptions about it, into question.
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The framing of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Columbian Exposition raises questions about the appeal of Stowe's novel for post–Civil War readers. I tackle those questions by considering the governing conception behind the Stowe exhibit and then analyzing dramatic differences in two American editions included in the Woman's Library. In the Stowe display, as in other contexts throughout the 1890s, Uncle Tom's Cabin was employed to support a self-congratulatory narrative of moral and social progress in U.S. culture while subtly outlining a program of continued subordination as the proper place for African Americans.
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The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 included many texts that could be classified as "religious." In bringing a large body of women's publications together in one place, the Woman's Building's organizers called attention to women's past achievements in order to carve out a larger space for women's public participation. Yet the project of expanding women's sphere coincided imperfectly with the domestic model of piety that most religious publications embodied. This essay explores tensions between the Woman's Building's goals of advancing women's power to shape the public sphere and the library's religious contents.
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The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition highlighted works by women authors, many of whom wrote for or about children, in the decade before children's literature was institutionalized by publishers and librarians. This noncanonical, eclectic assortment of children's literature exists within an interpretive framework—the horizons of expectations—by which children's books were received by late Victorian America. Drawing on reception theory, I construct the cultural climate of reception by which the art and commerce of children's books were idealized and realized. The books on the shelves of the Woman's Building Library function as mirror and lamp, reflecting American culture but also constructing that culture, a pilgrimage into literary romanticism and the cultural work of Victorian women writers in their "sensational designs" to move human hearts and change the world.
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Late-nineteenth-century women poets shed midcentury sentimentality unevenly and at some cost, losing a sense of privacy, a (Christian) frame of reference, and an "imagined community" of women who sharedtheir worldview. They also gained more public, secular, and professional sources of identity. The exact nature of this postsentimental self was unclear. Postsentimental poets often wrote in the "genteel tradition," which trumpeted eternal truth and beauty while working from aposition of subjective instability. Ultimately, their verses must be seenas powerfully fluid and transitional, registering (like the Woman'sBuilding Library) women's struggle to inhabit more public formsof authority.
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