Bücher der Reihe Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the early twentieth century with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein.

Explores how protest libraries - labour-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces - continue to arise. In telling the stories of these inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries.

The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.