Brayman Lander and Lesser 2016

Brayman, Heidi, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser, eds. The Book in History, The Book as History: New Intersections of the Material Text. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

Introduction

"The history of the book thus provides an alternative to the New Historicist mode of reading text as discourse, shifting attention from the freeform 'circulation of social energy' to a more rooted understanding of text a objects produced by particular people in particular circumstances to speak to particular audiences." (13)

second-wave book history seeks "to expicate how texts work rhetorically in the world, as events rather than discourses." (13)