Bergel, Dr Giles

Job Title: Tutorial Fellow
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Period/ Subject: Early-Modern; 18th Century

Email: giles.bergel@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

History of the book; textual scholarship; historiography. Areas of particular interest to me include cheap print, such as ballads, chapbooks, newspapers and ephemera, and interactions between print and scribal and oral cultures. My current research is on the representation of genealogy in print and other media during the handpress period (c. 1450-1800) in Britain. I am also working on a study of chapbooks from the eighteenth century to the present.

Teaching Areas:

Bibliography, book history and textual criticism; 18th Century literature

Recent Publications:

'William Dicey and the Networks and Places of Print Culture', in John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong (eds.), Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade, (British Library/Oak Knoll Press, 2006).

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