Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-century Print. Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O’Driscoll, eds. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2013. xvii, 300p. $90 (ISBN 9781611484946).

Abstract

This compilation of essays began as presentations at a symposium on ephemera in the long eighteenth century, held at the City University of New York Graduate Center in March 2009. The present collection, edited by Kevin D. Murphy and Sally O’Driscoll, seeks to reconceive and resituate the study of English eighteenth-century print ephemera, emphasizing how pervasive such materials were during the period. Their significance partly derives from the fact that many well-known visual and literary works were created in a culture swimming in these ephemera. The essays are separated into two distinct groups, the first focusing on categories, formats, and . . .