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Women’s Book History and the Knowledge Revolution

The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

The fields of book history and bibliography are having a cultural reckoning. The Women in Book History Bibliography (womensbookhistory.org) has acted as an impetus for championing the “lost” histories of women in the book trades and as a tool for arguing for further recovery work. Still in progress, the bibliography currently consists of over 2000 […]

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The White Whale: Moby-Dick Illustrated

The Book Club of California 312 Sutter Street Ste 500, San Francisco, CA, United States

At the time of Herman Melville’s death, in 1891, his novels had fallen into obscurity. Moby-Dick, his masterwork published in 1851, was out of print and unread. But in the 1920s, critical reassessments led to a “Melville revival.” This lecture surveys some of the famous and less well-known illustrated editions, artists’ books, and other visual interpretations, […]