A Degenerate Assemblage
Anthony Grafton: Bibliomania, 13 April 2023
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
by Denise Gigante.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023,978 0 300 24848 7 Show More
by Denise Gigante.
Yale, 378 pp., £25, January 2023,
“... and Pollard’s Inquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th-Century Pamphlets, the exposé that dished Thomas J. Wise, forger of rare editions. It all seemed to contradict the rants of intellectuals about the barrenness of American culture. Many of the angelheaded hipsters whom I met busied themselves in learning Old Church Slavonic or translating ... ”