Teaching the History of the Book
With 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 Mullāney, Kate Ozment, Leah Price, Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Senchyne, Sarah Wadsworth, and others.

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Teaching the History of the Book
With 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 Mullāney, Kate Ozment, Leah Price, Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Senchyne, Sarah Wadsworth, and others.

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With 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 Mullāney, Kate Ozment, Leah Price, Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Senchyne, Sarah Wadsworth, and others.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625347329
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 05/26/2023
Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Pages: 376
Product dimensions: (w) x (h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

MATTEO PANGALLO is associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

EMILY B. TODD is dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University.

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 Research 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 Mullāney
 
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
 
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