Publications

2013
Price, Leah. 2013. “Books on Books.” Public Books.
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2012
Price, Leah. 2012. “A Bad Month for Books.” West 86th: Journal of material culture and design history. Website
Price, Leah. 2012. “Dead Again.” New York Times Book Review.
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Price, Leah. 2012. “Reading in Place.” Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Price, Leah. 2012. How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Publisher's Version

Walter Channing Cabot Prize for Distinguished Publication; Robert Lowry Patten for best book on 18th- or 19th-century literature; Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize for best book in any field of literary criticismNamed “book of the year” by Books and Culture and listed among “Top Ten History Books of 2012” by Open Letters MonthlyReviewed in Times Literary Supplement, Library Journal, Boston Globe, Times Higher Education Supplement, Literary Review, History Today, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Toronto Star, Threepenny Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, Books & Culture, National Post (Canada), Huffington Post, Review of English Studies, Victorian Studies, Studies in English Literature, Novel, Nineteenth-Century Books Online, Review 13, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Victorian Review, Sewanee Review, Reception, Campaign for the American Reader, P. 99 Test, Humanities, Electric Scotland, Open Letters Monthly, Reception, Victorians Institute Journal, Journal of Victorian Culture, Wordsworth Circle, Victorian Web, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and on NPR; Interviews on Talk Radio Europe, Literature Lab, HLIT, Books and Arts Daily, C-SPAN, and on WVKR FM; Chapter 3 reprinted in Broadview Critical Edition of David Copperfield (ed. Eileen Gillooly, 2015); excerpted in Berfrois; Subject of panel discussions at Boston Book Festival, Mid-Manhattan Public Library; and of the annual weeklong faculty seminar, King's College Cambridge.

Price, Leah, and Kate Flint. 2012. “Reading and Literary Criticism.” Cambridge History of English Literature: The Victorian Period.
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2011
Price, Leah. 2011. “The Subconscious Shelf.” New York Times Book Review.
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Price, Leah. 2011. “Bent Spines.” New York Times, sec. Book Review. Publisher's Version

Essay on ergonomics. New York Times Book Review.

Price, Leah. 2011. Unpacking my library: writers and their books. Edited by Leah Price. New Haven: Yale University Press. Website

• NPR’s “Best Books of 2011”
• Observer Very Short List, 2011
• US reviews: Atlantic, USA Today, Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, Paris Review, Wall Street Journal, Choice, Boston Globe, Harvard Gazette, Books and Culture
• Reviews elsewhere: Guardian, Observer, Scotsman, Information (Denmark), West Australian, Good Reading
• Serialized in Financial Times (November 2011)
• Excerpted in New York Times Book Review (November 2011)
• Winner of the 2012 New York Book Show Award for best jacket design

2010
Price, Leah. 2010. “American Girl.” New York Times. Publisher's Version

New York Times Book Review. (1500-word review essay on the Alcott family).

Trollope and the Book as Prop
Price, Leah. 2010. “Trollope and the Book as Prop.” The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature, edited by Rachel Ablow and David Kurnick, 47-68. U Michigan Press. Publisher's Version
2009
Price, Leah. 2009. “Lives of Johnson.” New York Times. Publisher's Version

New York Times Book Review.

Price, Leah. 2009. “Read a Book, Get out of Jail.” New York Times. Publisher's Version

New York Times Book Review.

Price, Leah. 2009. “Reading As If For Life.” Michigan Quarterly Review 48: 483-498. Full text
Price, Leah. 2009. “From The History of a Book to a "history of the book".” Representations 108: 120-138. Publisher's Version
Getting the Reading Out of It’: Recycling and Repetition in London Labor and the London Poor
Price, Leah, Ina Ferris, and Paul Keen. 2009. “Getting the Reading Out of It’: Recycling and Repetition in London Labor and the London Poor.” Bookish Histories, 148-168. Palgrave. Publisher's Version
2008
Reading and Reception
Price, Leah. 2008. “Reading and Reception.” Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. Publisher's Version

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Price, Leah. 2008. “Review of The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti.” Novel 41 (Fall 2007): 145-148. Publisher's Version
Price, Leah. 2008. “Review of Charles Acland, ed., Residual Media.” Modernism/Modernity 15 (2): 418-419. Publisher's Version

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