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LECTURE NOTES, READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS |
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Lecture Note: Introduction (PDF)
- Discussion: The Promises and Failures of the Digital Revolution.
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Lecture Note: Theorizing Orality and Literacy (PDF)
- Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 2002 [1982]. Pp. 1-138, 156-79.
- Homework Assignment #1 (PDF)
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Lecture Note: Was There a "Printing Revolution"? (PDF)
- Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993 [1983]. Pp. 3-90.
- Grafton, Anthony T. "The Importance of Being Printed." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (Autumn 1980): 265-86.
- Tan, Philip. Little Leadings. (Student cyber-fiction set in a sixteenth-century printshop.)
- Homework Assignment #2 (PDF)
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A Visit to the Burndy Library
- Thorndike, Lynn, ed. The Sphere of Sacrobosco and Its Commentators. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. Pp. 118-23.
- Clancy, Michael T. "Looking Back From the Invention of Printing". In Literacy in Historical Perspective. Edited by Daniel P. Resnick. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983. Pp. 7-22.
- Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 1-57.
- Optional: Eisenstein. Printing Revolution. Pp. 185-252.
- Homework Assignment #3 (PDF)
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Lecture Note: Erasmus and Identity (PDF)
- Jardine, Lisa. Erasmus, Man of Letters. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. 3-53.
- Erasmus, Desiderius. "On Good Manners For Boys." In The Erasmus Reader. Edited by Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
- Erasmus, Desiderius. "The Paraclesis" (Introduction to his edition of The New Testament). In Christian Humanism and the Reformation: Selected Writings of Erasmus. Edited by J. C. Olin. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
- Rozier, Joey. Modern Day Adages. (Student Project Inspired by Erasmus.)
- Optional: Eisenstein. Printing Revolution. Pp. 109-84.
- Homework Assignment #4 (PDF)
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- Select a chapbook for your first paper project.
- Hausman, Nicholas. Chapbook Analysis. (Student analysis of Guy of Warwick.)
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Lecture Note: English Chapbooks (PDF)
- Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1982. Pp. 1-82, 156-93.
- Pepys, Samuel. Samuel Pepys' Penny Merriments. Edited by Roger Thompson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. 102-13, 247-63.
- Homework Assignment #5 (PDF)
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Visit to the Bow and Arrow Press
- Gewertz, Ken. "'No laptops allowed' at the Adams House printing press." Harvard Gazette (May 16, 2002) (article on the Bow and Arrow Press).
- Ten-page Paper due. (PDF)
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Lecture Note: The Stage and the Page: The Case of the Early Modern Theater in Print (PDF)
- Peters, Julie Stone. Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 15-40.
- McKenzie, Donald. "Typography and Meaning: The Case of William Congreve." In Buch und Buchhandel in Europa im achtzehten Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Giles Barber und Bernhard Fabian. Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1981. Pp. 81-125.
- William Congreve. The Way of the World.
- Homework Assignment #6 (PDF)
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Lecture Note: Rousseau and His Readers in the Eighteenth Century (PDF)
- Online Biography of Rousseau.
- Darnton, Robert. "Readers Respond to Rousseau: The Fabrication of Romantic Sensibility." In The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. London: Penguin, 2001 [1984]. Pp. 215-56.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Julie, or La Nouvelle Héloise. Translated and Abridged by Judith H. McDowell. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1968. Letters 1-14, pp. 25-53.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Book I.
- Homework Assignment #7 (PDF)
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Lecture Note: Readers and Publishing Today (PDF)
- Epstein, Jason. Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future. New York: W.W. Norton, 2001.
- Homework Assignment #8 (PDF)
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Consultations With Instructor |
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The Future of Print and Media Online
- A Conversation with Ann Wolpert, Director of the MIT Libraries, and Frank Urbanowski, Director of the MIT Press.
- Browse the MIT Press web site. Be sure to click on the link "About the Press," which contains a brief history of the Press.
- Read the 2000-2001 Annual Report by the Director of the MIT libraries.
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Lecture Note: The Politics and Perils of Online Communities (PDF)
- Sunstein, Cass. Republic.com. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Sunstein, Cass. Revised epilogue to Echo Chambers: Bush v. Gore, Impeachment, and Beyond. Princeton University Press.
- Five-page Paper due. (PDF)
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