Paper Session 10: Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation

Session Organizers: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) & Elizaveta Strakhov (Marquette University) Moderator: Stephen Nichols (Professor Emeritus and Research Professor; James M. Beall Professor Emeritus of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University)

Ellen Handy (The City College of New York, CUNY) “The Art of Ethnography in Photogravure: Reading Julia Peterkin and Doris Ullmann’s Roll, Jordan, Roll in Material Terms”

Sarah Peters Kernan (Independent scholar) “Reading the Whole Book: Cookbooks in Late Medieval English Professional Manuscripts”

Douglas Mark Klahr (University of Texas at Arlington) “Ambiguous Containers of Propaganda: Paradoxes of Nazi Stereoscopic Photo Books”

Tara Lyons (Illinois State University) “Reading the Whole Play Collection: Seneca Beyond the Commonplace”

See the conference website at http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/ for more information about the conference.