Description
Book SynopsisWith original contributions from a diverse range of teachers, scholars, and practitioners in literary studies, history, book arts, library science, language studies, and archives,
Teaching the History of the Book is the first collection of its kind dedicated to book history pedagogy. Presenting a variety of methods for teaching book history both as its own subject and as an approach to other material, each chapter describes lessons, courses, and programs centered on the latest and best ways of teaching undergraduate and graduate students.
Expansive and instructive, this volume introduces ways of helping students consider how texts were produced, circulated, and received, with chapters that cover effective ways to organize courses devoted to book history, classroom activities that draw on this subject in other courses, and an overview of selected print and digital tools. Contributors, many of whom are leading figures in the field, utilize their own classroom experiences to bring to life some of the rich possibilities for teaching book history in the twenty-first century.
In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Ryan Cordell, Brigitte Fielder, Barbara Hochman, Leslie Howsam, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Clare Mullaney, Kate Ozment, Leah Price, Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Senchyne, Sarah Wadsworth, and others.
Trade Review “This well-conceived collection is the first to investigate book history pedagogy itself, and it does so in a generous and inclusive way. It manages to be a comprehensive resource for current pedagogy in book history while also providing ideas and inspiration for future instructors. The editors have done an excellent job in bringing together a wide range of voices and perspectives.”—Shafquat Towheed, coeditor of Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives
“This collection, the first of its kind on the teaching of book history, offers a nicely diverse list of contributors, including major scholars who have been involved in this field for a long time.”—Christine Pawley, author of Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America
Table of Contents
- Figures
Acknowledgments
- Introduction
Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd
- PART 1
Conceptualizing the Teaching of Book History
- Chapter 1.1
When and Where Did We Start Teaching Book History?
Leslie Howsam
- Chapter 1.2
Why We Teach Book History making it relevant Jonathan Rose
- Chapter 1.3
Teaching a Feminist Book History
Kate Ozment
- Chapter 1.4 Teaching Black Book History
Beginning Outside the Book
Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne
- Chapter 1.5
The Book in the World
Teaching a Global History of the Book
Frederick Nesta
- Chapter 1.6
Programmable Type
The Craft of printing, the Craft of Code
Ryan Cordell
- PART 2
Teaching Book History as a Course
- Chapter 2.1
Book History in the Making
Mark Alan Mattes, Delinda Buie, and Rachel Singel
- Chapter 2.2
Mediating the Student Body
Labor Literacy, and Experiential Learning in the Book History Classroom
Lisa Maruca
- Chapter 2.3
The Printed Word Endures
Studying Book History by Making Books
Josef Beery
- Chapter 2.4
Teaching the History of Illustrated Texts Broadside Ballads as Early Modern Memes
Molly Hand
- Chapter 2.5
Location, Location, Location
Reading Canonical Fiction in Periodical Context
Barbara Hochman
- Chapter 2.6
“Race and Publishing in the United States” an Advanced Undergraduate Seminar
Allison Fagan
- Chapter 2.7
Old Books and New Scholars
Undergraduate Mentored Reasearch in the Book History Classroom
Jamie Horrocks
- Chapter 2.8
The Book History Master’s Degree a Case Study
Tom Mole
- Chapter 2.9
The Librarians of Babel
Teaching the History of the Book to Future Professionals
Rebecca Baumann
- Chapter 2.10
The Uninhibited Archive
Teaching Book History through Public Exhibition
Alex Mueller and Cheryl Nixon
- Chapter 2.11
Using Periodicals Databases in Book History Pedagogy
Christine Woody
- Chapter 2.12
Book History Online, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ROM
Matt Carter
- PART 3
Using Book History in Other Courses
- Chapter 3.1
“Who Made This Book?”
Teaching Information Literacy through Book History
Jennifer Newman and Julie Van Peteghem
- Chapter 3.2
What Is the Value of a Text?
Harry Potter, G. Thomas Tanselle, and Alibris
Laura Estill
- Chapter 3.3
“Brit. Lit. I” from Only One Library
Joshua Eckhardt
- Chapter 3.4
Accessibility and Teaching Book History
Clare Mullaney
- Chapter 3.5
The History of the Book in/and the New World
George Antony Thomas
- Chapter 3.6
Teaching Indigenous and Multiethnic Literature through Book History
Amy Gore
- Chapter 3.7
“Through the Windows of This Book”
Teaching Children’s Literature through the History of the Book
Sarah Wadsworth
- Chapter 3.8 Gesso, Amatl, and Glyphs
Using Mesoamerican Codices to Teach about the Material Complexities of (digital) Humanities Projects
Nora C. Benedict
- Chapter 3.9
(Un)Making Texts/(Re)Making Books
Editing in the Undergraduate Classroom
Thomas A. Hamill
- Chapter 3.10
Teaching American Women’s Authorship in the American Literature Survey through the History of the Book
Melissa J. Homestead
- Chapter 3.11 Rhetoric of the iPhone
A Twenty-First Century Writing Course
Caroline B. Barta
- Chapter 3.12
Using Book History in Graduate Book Publishing Programs
Rachel Noorda and Claire Squires
- Chapter 3.13 Toni Morrison’s Lorain
Community-based Learning about the History of the Black Book
Jewon Woo
- PART 4
Resources for Teaching Book History
- Chapter 4.1
The London Rare Books School
Karen Attar
- Chapter 4.2 Meet the (Book) Beetle
Teaching with a Table Top Letter Press
Matthew Kirschenbaum, Mallory Haselberger, Britt Starr, and Kari Kraus
- Chapter 4.3
The Virtual Printing House
Exploring Early Modern Book Construction with DIY First Folio
Kyle Sebastian Vitale
- Chapter 4.4
Digital Resources for Teaching African American Book History
Heidi Morse
- Chapter 4.5 Thinking DEEP-ly
The database of Early English Playbooks in the Undergraduate Classroom
Sarah Neville and Natalie Dalea
- Chapter 4.6
Teaching with Digital Illustration Resources
Michael John Goodman
- Afterword
- Book Learning Leah Price
- Contributors
Index
