Yuri Cowan
About
Yuri Cowan holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto, Canada, and came to NTNU in 2012 from a post-doctoral fellowship in the Research Project on Authorship as Performance (RAP) at Ghent University in Belgium, where he was again a visiting scholar in 2017-18. His current research works to describe diverse Victorian historiographies of everyday life. In the field of book history, he is interested in the material book, constructions of authorship, the history of collecting, and textual histories, especially with regard to the circumstances of the form, publication, and reception of nineteenth-century editions of medieval texts, such as William Morris's translation of The Ordination of Knighthood, which he edited for the Morris Archive. He has published various articles on Morris, the Aesthetic Movement, ballad literature, Victorian sporting periodical literature, and the reprinting of Victorian fantasy in the 1970s; he is currently completing a book-length manuscript entitled William Morris and Medieval Material Culture, and is beginning to write about the portrayal of book technologies in speculative fiction, as well as on SF's regional variations in Cascadia and California. He guest-edited a special issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture in 2013 on the subject of "Textual Histories," and is a founding editor (and was Managing Editor from 2011-2014) of the online peer-reviewed open-access journal Authorship. He is a member of the research project Norwegian Broadside Ballads 1550-1950: Recovering a Cultural Heritage, headed by Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, and was also a member of the Enlightenment News project (2013-17), headed by Paul Goring.
From 2019, he is co-editor (with Greg Barnhisel and Beth Le Roux) of Book History, the journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). He is also a member of the advisory boards of the journals Authorship and English Studies.
Publications
2023
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2023)
The Ivory Gate: News from Nowhere and the Medieval Dream Vision.
Journal of William Morris Studies
Academic article
2022
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2022)
Norwegian Broadside Ballads and the Collecting Practices of Thorvald Boeck.
Mémoires du livre
Academic article
2021
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
«En samler av guds nåde»: Thorvald Boeck og skillingsvisene
på 1800-tallet.
Scandinavian Academic Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
1924: Eileen Power and Madame Eglentyne.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2020
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2020)
William Morris's Book Collecting.
Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2019
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
A Canticle for Leibowitz and Post-Apocalyptic Technologies of the Book.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Popular scientific article
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
Review of Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690‐1820s. Ed. Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell.
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academic literature review
2018
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2018)
Orality, Authenticity, and the Historiography of the Everyday:
The Ballad in Victorian Scholarship and Print Culture.
Finnish Literature Society
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2016
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Sporting Periodicals.
Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Cowan, Yuri;
Schelstraete, Jasper.
(2016)
De kranten van Asimov: Een geschiedenis van de toekomst van het boek.
nY: tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement
Popular scientific article
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of the UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive.
SHARP News
Book review
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books (Guyda Armstrong, University of Toronto Press).
SHARP News
Book review
2015
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Atavism, Beauty, and Power: The Body of the Deep Past in the Atlantis Romances of J. Allan Dunn and Arthur Conan Doyle.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Article in business/trade/industry journal
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press.
McGill-Queen's University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2014
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2014)
Pater, Decadent Historicism, and the Poetics of the Fragment: Gaston de Latour and "Denys l'Auxerrois".
The Journal of pre-Raphaelite studies (1992)
Academic article
2013
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Review of Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm Blissett in Letters (Sean Kane, editor, Porcupine’s Quill, 432).
University of Toronto quarterly
Book review
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Introduction: Textual Histories.
Mémoires du livre
Academic article
2012
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Industrializing Print, Sport, and Authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the New Sporting Magazine".
Critical Survey
Academic article
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Reading Material Bibliography and Digital Editions".
University of Toronto Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Walter Scott and Victorian Ballad Anthologies: Authorship, Editing, and Authority".
Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik
Academic article
2011
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s. By Nicholas Frankel.
SHARP News
Book review
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press: a Checklist. By Matthew McLennan Young.
SHARP News
Book review
2010
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Recovering the Barbarians: Reprinting 'Forgotten Fantasy' in the 1970s.
Mémoires du livre
Academic article
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Everyday Material Culture in the Medieval Tales of The Earthly Paradise.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2008
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2008)
William Morris and Medieval Material Culture.
University of Toronto
Doctoral dissertation
2007
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2007)
'Paradyse Erthly': John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision.
University of Toronto Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2006
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2006)
Allegory and Aestheticism in the Fantasies of George MacDonald.
North Wind : A Journal of George MacDonald Studies
Academic article
2004
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2004)
William Allingham's Ballad Book and its Victorian Readers.
University of Toronto quarterly
Academic article
Journal publications
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2023)
The Ivory Gate: News from Nowhere and the Medieval Dream Vision.
Journal of William Morris Studies
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2022)
Norwegian Broadside Ballads and the Collecting Practices of Thorvald Boeck.
Mémoires du livre
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
A Canticle for Leibowitz and Post-Apocalyptic Technologies of the Book.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Popular scientific article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
Review of Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690‐1820s. Ed. Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell.
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Academic literature review
-
Cowan, Yuri;
Schelstraete, Jasper.
(2016)
De kranten van Asimov: Een geschiedenis van de toekomst van het boek.
nY: tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement
Popular scientific article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of the UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive.
SHARP News
Book review
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books (Guyda Armstrong, University of Toronto Press).
SHARP News
Book review
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Atavism, Beauty, and Power: The Body of the Deep Past in the Atlantis Romances of J. Allan Dunn and Arthur Conan Doyle.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Article in business/trade/industry journal
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2014)
Pater, Decadent Historicism, and the Poetics of the Fragment: Gaston de Latour and "Denys l'Auxerrois".
The Journal of pre-Raphaelite studies (1992)
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Review of Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm Blissett in Letters (Sean Kane, editor, Porcupine’s Quill, 432).
University of Toronto quarterly
Book review
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Introduction: Textual Histories.
Mémoires du livre
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Industrializing Print, Sport, and Authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the New Sporting Magazine".
Critical Survey
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Walter Scott and Victorian Ballad Anthologies: Authorship, Editing, and Authority".
Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s. By Nicholas Frankel.
SHARP News
Book review
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press: a Checklist. By Matthew McLennan Young.
SHARP News
Book review
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Recovering the Barbarians: Reprinting 'Forgotten Fantasy' in the 1970s.
Mémoires du livre
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2006)
Allegory and Aestheticism in the Fantasies of George MacDonald.
North Wind : A Journal of George MacDonald Studies
Academic article
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2004)
William Allingham's Ballad Book and its Victorian Readers.
University of Toronto quarterly
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
«En samler av guds nåde»: Thorvald Boeck og skillingsvisene
på 1800-tallet.
Scandinavian Academic Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
1924: Eileen Power and Madame Eglentyne.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2020)
William Morris's Book Collecting.
Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2018)
Orality, Authenticity, and the Historiography of the Everyday:
The Ballad in Victorian Scholarship and Print Culture.
Finnish Literature Society
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Sporting Periodicals.
Routledge
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press.
McGill-Queen's University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Reading Material Bibliography and Digital Editions".
University of Toronto Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Everyday Material Culture in the Medieval Tales of The Earthly Paradise.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2007)
'Paradyse Erthly': John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision.
University of Toronto Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2008)
William Morris and Medieval Material Culture.
University of Toronto
Doctoral dissertation
Media
2023
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri Allen. (2023) William Morris and the Kelmscott Canon. European Society for Textual Studies 2023 conference , Canterbury 2023-04-13 - 2023-04-14
2022
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2022) Round Table: "1922: Beyond Modernism". European Society for the Study of English Conference 2022 , Mainz 2022-08-29 - 2022-09-02
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Popular scientific lectureCowan, Yuri Allen. (2022) Presentasjon av kapittelet "'En samler av guds nåde': Thorvald Boeck og skillingsvisene på 1800-tallet". Litteraturhuset i Trondheim Boklansering Skillingsvisene i Norge 1550-1950 , Litteraturhuset i Trondheim 2022-02-11 - 2022-02-11
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2022) Eden Phillpotts: Pan and the Twins. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Unknown 1922 , Munich 2022-03-17 - 2022-03-18
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2022) Inscriptive Technologies in Speculative Fiction. NARMESH lecture series , Gent 2022-06-16 - 2022-06-16
2021
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2021) The Texts and Editors of the Kelmscott Press. St. Bride Foundation The Kelmscott Press and its Legacies symposium , London 2021-11-06 - 2021-11-06
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2021) "Buried in the Transformation": The Treachery of the Written Word in SF. University of London The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction 2021-03-25 - 2021-03-26
2020
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Popular scientific lectureCowan, Yuri. (2020) Is Anything Truly Lowbrow? A Book History Perspective. Linjeforeningen Gengangere Lenge Leve Lavkulturen! - Litterær Salong , Trondheim 2020-02-28 - 2020-02-28
2019
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2019) Asimov's Newspapers: The Material Book in SF from the Golden Age to the New Weird. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , Munich 2019-06-25 - 2019-06-25
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2019) "Pretty Well Known, I Think": William Morris in the French and Norwegian Periodical Press. Literary Citizenship Conference , Oslo 2019-09-25 - 2019-09-27
2018
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2018) The Authorial Presence of William Morris in Victorian Periodical Culture. Century for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Literature CEL19 Lecture Series , Ghent 2018-11-30 - 2018-11-30
2017
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2017) 'A Great Instance of our Frugality of Words': Reporting the Local and Global Eighteenth Century in 140 Characters. Huntington Library The Rise of the Newspaper in Europe and America, 1600-1900 , Pasadena 2017-10-13 - 2017-10-14
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2017) Material Culture and Society in the Late Romances of William Morris. Justus Liebig University Giessen The Victorian Novel lecture series , Giessen 2017-05-23 - 2017-05-23
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Popular scientific lectureCowan, Yuri. (2017) Tree-Huggers and Terraformers: Science Fiction on the West Coast. Starmus in the City , Litteraturhuset i Trondheim 2017-06-20 - 2017-06-20
2016
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2016) Playing at History: Anachronism and Crusader Kings 2. European Society for the Study of English ESSE 2016 , Galway 2016-08-22 - 2016-08-26
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Popular scientific lectureCowan, Yuri. (2016) The Small Press Movement, Book Design, and the Origins of Modernism. Litterært Kollektiv Ugress 2016 , Trondheim 2016-09-14 - 2016-09-18
2015
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2015) 'A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts': The Justified Sinner and the Scots Mummy In and Out of the Pages of Blackwood's. James Hogg Society 2015 conference , Toronto 2015-04-09 - 2015-04-11
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2015) 'The Handiest of Men and Skilled in Everything': Morris and the Domestic Idiom of the Saga . Modern Language Association of America annual conference , Vancouver 2015-01-08 - 2015-01-11
2014
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Popular scientific lectureCowan, Yuri. (2014) Worlds Die, Books Survive: Post-Apocalyptic Knowledge and Technology. Torucon 2014 , Trondheim 2014-08-10 -
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2014) Charting a Popular Readership for Medieval Literature in the Nineteenth Century. NTNUs Middelalderseminar , Suhmhuset, Trondheim 2014-05-29 -
2013
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Academic lectureCowan, Yuri. (2013) "The Rationale of Victorian Hypertext: Nineteenth-Century Networks of Textual Recovery and Editing". Digital Humanities and Early Modern Studies 2013-11-15 - 2013-11-15