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Harvard Professor Leah Price, How the Victorians Invented Spam (Ohio State)

Force-Reading: Free Print and Captive Audiences in Victorian Britain

Leah Price (Harvard) presents the inaugural invited lecture on the history of
the book.

According to Price, this lecture aims to wrest attention away from the
fraction of its lifecycle that any book spends in the hands of readers, toward
the whole spectrum of social practices for which printed matter provides a
prompt. Bought, sold, exchanged, transported, displayed, defaced, stored,
ignored, collected, neglected, dispersed, discarded, books can be enlisted in
a range of transactions that stretch far beyond the literary or even the
linguistic. Her talk will ask, more specifically, how the Victorians invented
spam: what distribution networks they developed to distribute printed matter
that (whether its content was commercial or religious) changed hands via some
transaction more complex than impersonal buying and selling.

Price is Professor of English at Harvard University, where she also holds the
Harvard College Professorship. She teaches the novel, eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century British culture, narrative theory, gender studies, and the
history of books and reading. She is the Humanities Program Director at the
Radcliffe Institute; she also directs (together with Ann Blair, Robert
Darnton, and David Hall) the faculty seminar on the History of ...

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