Dianne Dugaw

Folklore and Book Culture

“The book’s scholarship is impressive, and the details are delicious. . . . All-but-anonymous ordinary book owners of bygone days speak to us with quotidian concerns and sometimes touching wryness. . . . Folklore and Book Culture ranges adeptly over other absorbing materials from individual items of folklore to obscure and telling facts about early-modern book marketing or such well-known figures as Thomas Jefferson.”