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Literature, Book History,
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Ben-Gurion University, July 1-3, 2008
Senate Building, Room -136
Program and Abstracts
Tuesday, July 1 - The Anxiety of Disciplinarity
9:30-10:30 Welcome
Greetings, Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University
General Introduction to the Workshop, Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 What Do Literary Critics Want from Book History?
Chair: David Stewart, National Central University
Peter McDonald, St Hugh's College, Oxford
Reading in Space
Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania
The History of the Book and/as Discontinuous Reading
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Historians and Literature: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
Chair: Mechal Sobel, Haifa University
Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester
Conceptualizing the History of Reading in Postwar America
Jonathan Rose, Drew University
Winston Churchill and the Literary History of Politics
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-6:00 Practicing Interdisciplinarity
Chair: Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University
Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Haifa University
Anti-Narrative Truth: The Uncommon Textual World of Victorian Precedent
Yael Ben-zvi, Ben-Gurion University
The Deterritorialization of African Americans in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Geography Textbooks and Abolitionist Novels
Leah Price, Harvard University
From The History of a Book to the "History of the Book": Readers, Handlers and Users in the It-Narrative
Reception and Dinner
Wednesday, July 2 - Reading and Readers
9:00-11:00 In Search of the Real Reader
Chair: Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University
Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh
Jerome in Antarctica
Olga Kuminova, Ben-Gurion University
Committed to Public Care: Reader, Author, and the Community in the Reception History of The Sound and the Fury
Ellen Garvey, New Jersey City University
The Authorship of Blank Books: Mark Twain Scrapbooks and the Patent Office's Useless Books
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Contexts of Reading
Chair: Gerda Elata-Alster, Ben-Gurion University
Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University
Nahum Gutman, Lobengulu King of Zulu, and the South-African Book
Matthew Brown, University of Iowa
"But to Return": Mary Rowlandson, Ruminative Reading, and the Book Object
1:00-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 Reception History and Cultural Impact
Chair: Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University
Chanita Goodblatt, Ben-Gurion University
"It is in the Danger that I am Interested": The Presence of Abraham Ibn Ezra in Early Modern England
Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University
Melville's Inconsolable Rachel and the Rise of Women's Bibles
Desert Excursion and Dinner
Thursday, July 3 - Book History and Cultural Legitimacy
9:30-11:00 Case Studies: Bad Books and the Dangerous Classes
Chair: Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University
David Stewart, National Central University
Walking, Working, Reading: the Workingman as Body and Text
Michael Zakim, Tel Aviv University
Industrial Writing: or, the Poetics of the Business Ledger
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Book History and Reception History
Chair: Tresa Grauer, Ben-Gurion University
Shlomi Deloia, Ben-Gurion University
Bread Givers' Readers: Anzia Yezierska through the Lenses of "Race" and "Ethnicity"
James Machor, Kansas State University
'These Days of Double Dealing': The Reception and Remaking of Poe's Fiction in the Antebellum U.S.
1:00-2:30 Lunch Break
2:30-4:30 Religion and Reading
Chair: Milette Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Erin Smith, University of Texas, Dallas
What would Jesus Read: Popular Books and Religious Readers in Contemporary America
Iris Parush, Ben-Gurion University
Sound and Silence: Religious Literacy and the Culture of Male Reading in 19th century Eastern European Jewish society
Robert Orsi, Northwestern University
Sacred Superheroes: What 20th Century US Catholic Children Read
4:30-5:00 Coffee Break
5:00 Farewell
Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University