Errors! - CFP deadline 14 April 2014
Error and Print
Culture, 1500-1800:
A one-day conference
at the Centre for the Study of the Book, Oxford University
Saturday 5 July 2014
Call for Papers
'Pag. 8. lin. 7. for laughing,
reade, languishing.'
Richard Bellings, A Sixth Booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1624),
‘Errata’
Recent histories of the book have replaced earlier
narratives of technological triumph and revolutionary change with a more
tentative story of continuities with manuscript culture and the instability of
print. An abstract sense of technological agency has given way to a messier
world of collaboration, muddle, money, and imperfection. Less a confident
stride towards modernity, the early modern book now looks stranger: not quite
yet a thing of our world.
What role
might error have in these new histories of the hand-press book? What kinds of
error are characteristic of print, and what can error tell us about print
culture? Are particular forms of publication prone to particular mistakes? How
effective were mechanisms of correction (cancel-slips; errata lists;
over-printing; and so on), and what roles did the printing house corrector
perform? Did readers care about mistakes? Did authors have a sense of print as
an error-prone, fallen medium, and if so, how did this inform their writing?
What links might we draw between representations of error in literary works
(like Spenser's Faerie Queene), and
the presence of error in print? How might we think about error and retouching
or correcting rolling-press plates? What is the relationship between engraving
historians' continuum of difference, and letter-press bibliographers' binary of
variant/invariant? Was there a relationship between bibliographical error and
sin, particularly in the context of the Reformation? How might modern editors
of early modern texts respond to errors: are errors things to correct, or to
dutifully transcribe? Is the history of the book a story of the gradual
elimination of error, or might we propose a more productive role for slips and
blunders?
Proposals
for 20-minute papers are welcome on any aspect of error and print, in
Anglophone or non-Anglophone cultures. Please email a 300-word abstract and a
short CV to Dr Adam Smyth (adam.smyth@balliol.ox.ac.uk) by 14 April 2014.
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