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SUMMARY:‘Business sticks to me\, sirs’: The Bill-Sticker and Public Pri
 nt in the Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:\nTwenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the B
 ook Trade\nLecture by Dennis Duncan\, Associate Professor\, University Col
 lege London\n“He is a literary man … and he caters for the major part 
 of the population almost the only literature that they ever peruse. He is 
 a publisher to boot\, whose varied and voluminous works … are read by al
 l the world” (“The Billsticker\,” Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal\, 2
 0 Aug 1853). This lecture will look at the figure of the billsticker — t
 he urban publisher par excellence — pinning and pasting advertisements o
 n the walls\, posts\, and hoardings of the city. In literature\, his forms
  have ranged from As You Like It’s sweet\, lovelorn Orlando\, posting hi
 s terrible poetry on the trees of Arden\, to Blazes Boylan in Ulysses\, cu
 ckolding our hero Bloom and sticking his bill where it doesn’t belong. T
 he reality was of a skilled but semi-vagabond trade drifting towards great
 er professionalization in the form of trade associations and advertising a
 gencies. This paper observes the billstickers' sly resistance to continual
  attempts —both local and municipal —to regulate them\, and the way th
 at these behaviors were often viewed with a wry or indulgent tolerance.\n\
 nDennis Duncan is a writer and Associate Professor in English at Universit
 y College London. His books include Book Parts (with Adam Smyth\, Oxford U
 niversity Press\, 2019)\, and Index\, A History of the (W. W. Norton\, 202
 2). The latter was a New York Times bestseller and was listed as one of th
 e Books of the Year in the New York Times\, TIME magazine\, the Washington
  Post\, and the Financial Times. It has been translated into nine language
 s. He writes regularly for the New York Times\, the London Review of Books
 \, the Guardian\, and the Times Literary Supplement. His current research 
 concerns ephemera and the history of collecting. He is a Fellow of the Roy
 al Historical Society.\n\n\n\nThe registration form will post here approxi
 mately one month in advance of the program. This event is free to attend w
 ith advance registration and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. 
 Seating is limited. Walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\n\nT
 he lecture will be livestreamed and the recording will be available to wat
 ch on the Center’s YouTube channel for one year following the event. Reg
 istration is not required to watch the livestream.\n\n\n\nImage: Change of
  Amusements. Leeds\, [England]: Dewhirst\, 1818. Clark Library Annex 3\; A
 rtwork\, Box 91\, folder 4.
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LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream\, 252
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