Galey 2013 - Book History in Practice (Syllabus & Biblio)
Galey 2013 - Book History in Practice (Syllabus & Biblio)
Galey 2013 - Book History in Practice (Syllabus & Biblio)
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Overview
The approach of the course reflects what David Greetham calls "the disciplinary interrelatedness of
all aspects of the study of the book" (Textual Scholarship: An Introduction, p. 2). The course
consists of seminars on key topics in book history, punctuated by case studies of particular books,
events, and debates. These case studies are designed to pull together ongoing threads of inquiry
from the readings, and to allow students to work outward from specific artifacts to general
questions.
Students will gain a detailed understanding of current topics in the field of book history, and how to
situate their own research within ongoing debates. Topics for 2013 may include challenges to the
idea of print culture, the book as imagined from the past, databases, orality and literacy, archives,
paratextuality, authorship, and book history in the mainstream media. Case studies may include
Charles Darwin, the Treaty of Waitangi, the Walt Whitman Archive, Joyce's Ulysses, the
Penguin/Random House merger, and the New York Public Library's Central Branch redesign.
Course texts
You do not have to purchase any textbooks for this course. The majority of our readings will come
from sources available online, or from photocopies will be available in the book history binder
available at the circulation desk of the Inforum (the Faculty of Information Library, Bissell Building,
4th floor). Just ask for the "book history binder." It's ordered alphabetically by author; feel free to
browse the other articles inside, given that they're all potentially relevant to our semiar topic, and
some of the best finds happen by serendipity.
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The following books will be on course reserve in the Inforum (and McKenzie and the Blackwell
Companion are available online via the library catalogue), but they are also good books to have on
your own shelf:
Leslie Howsam. Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book History and
Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. [Inforum: 002 H866P].
Philip Gaskell. A New Introduction to Bibliography. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll, 2007.
[Inforum: 686.209 G248N (1972)]
D.C. Greetham. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1994. [Inforum:
010.44 G816T]
D.F. McKenzie. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1999 [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8357833; Inforum: 010.42 M156BA]
Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, ed. A Companion to the History of the Book. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7875444; Inforum: 002.09 C737C]
Evaluation
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40%
Participation
Seminar presentation
Short paper
Final paper
All assignments, except by arrangement with the instructor, must be submitted electronically as
PDF files in double-spaced 12 pt serif font. Citations must conform to the Chicago Manual of Style
Online (notes + bibliography, not author-date): http://go.utlib.ca/cat/6662347. Please submit your
essays with footnotes rather than endnotes, which makes them easier for me to read digitally.
Assignments must be submitted via Blackboard by 5:00 pm on the due date. Late assignments
may not be accepted, or may receive a reduced grade. Extensions will only be granted in the event
of illness or family emergency, and then only with appropriate documentation. Essays at the
graduate level should be free of writing errors. Be sure to proofread your essays carefully before
submitting them, and refer to the online Chicago Manual on questions of grammar, punctuation,
and usage.
Participation
This mark is determined by the quality of your contributions to class discussion. The course is
largely structured by ongoing intellectual debates in book history and related fields, and you should
come prepared to engage those debates, not just observe them. This means reading all of the
week's primary assigned materials, doing further reading (based on suggestions from the reading
list, references from the assigned readings, or your own initiative), allowing yourself enough time
to think about the readings, and coming to class with things to say. Participation depends just as
much on listening, so you should listen carefully to everyone's contributions, consider the effects of
your own comments, and respect all members of the class.
Seminar presentation
At some point in the term you will lead a class discussion on the classs topic and one or more of
the readings. This type of presentation involves doing the kinds of preparation that instructors do,
namely formulating discussion questions, highlighting key topics or passages, and contextualizing
the material. You are expected to think critically about the material just as you would in writing a
conference paper or article: you should select the salient points, evaluate how well the article
makes those points, provide the group with relevant context from beyond the readings (such as
examples not mentioned in the readings), and offer your own critical response to the material.
Your presentation should take about 20-25 minutes, followed by another 20-25 minutes of
discussion led by you. You will be graded on the quality of your preparation, your ability to
communicate what you know to the group, and the skill with which you facilitate discussion. A data
projector and screen will be available for students to use, but be aware that WiFi access isn't
reliable in the Colin Friesen Room. Presentations must include at least one paper handout to be
distributed in class.
Presenters are required to post two potential discussion questions, arising from the reading, to the
course discussion board by 5:00 pm on the Thursday before their presentation. The rest of us
should make sure to check the blog, think about the questions over the weekend, and come
prepared to engage them during the discussion on Monday. (For non-presenters, this will be
reflected in the participation grade.) Presenters are also welcome to ask the class to look at some
material of their choice in advance, such as a website, provided that the addition to the assigned
reading isn't too onerous. When two students are presenting in the same class, I encourage you to
coordinate to ensure your presentations are complementary.
You are not required to submit a written version of the presentation. However, students using
digital slides are encouraged to email me their PowerPoint (or Keynote, or Prezi, etc.) files
afterward for more detailed feedback.
Final essay
14-16 pages, excluding bibliography and figures
Due Monday, April 8 Friday, April 12
In the final essay, students will identify a specific research question related to the course and write
a scholarly research essay about it. There is a fair amount of latitude available: students may take
up a particular theoretical or methodological question, explore an historical context in relation to
specific books or communities, analyze the development of a specific aspect of the materiality of
texts, or approach their topic some other way. What matters most is that the essay engage with
topics and materials related to the course, and advance an original and relevant argument that is
appropriately supported by your research into primary and secondary sources (including readings
beyond those assigned for the course) -- these are the criteria upon which the essay will be
graded, along with the strength and accuracy of the writing.
All students are required to consult with me about their topic in advance. Essay topics may
build upon work done for the first written assignment, but may not duplicate it outright. Essays will
be graded on the quality of research and engagement with primary and secondary sources, and on
the effectiveness of the argumentation and writing.
Academic integrity
The life of the mind depends upon respect for the ideas of others, and especially for the labour that
went into the creation of those ideas. Accordingly, the University of Toronto has a strict zerotolerance policy on plagiarism, as defined in section B.I.1. (d) of the Universitys Code of Behavior
on Academic Matters. Please make sure that you:
Remember: plagiarism through negligence, as distinct from deliberate intent, is still plagiarism in
the eyes of the University. Take notes carefully, use quotation marks religiously when copying and
pasting from digital sources (so that no one, including you, mistakes someone else's words for your
own), and document your research process. And always, when in doubt, ask.
Writing support
The SGS Office of English Language and Writing Support provides writing support for graduate
students. The services are designed to target the needs of both native and non- native speakers of
English and include non-credit courses, single-session workshops, individual writing consultations,
and website resources. These programs are free. Please avail yourself of these services.
Special needs
Students with diverse learning styles and needs are welcome in this course. In particular, if you
have a disability or health consideration that may require accommodations, please feel free to
approach the instructor and/or the Accessibility Services Office at
http://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/accessibility.htm as soon as possible. The Accessibility Services
staff are available by appointment to assess specific needs, provide referrals, and arrange
appropriate accommodations.
Schedule
7 Jan.
Introduction
14 Jan.
21 Jan.
28 Jan.
4 Feb.
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11 Feb.
18 Feb.
25 Feb.
Text vs Paratext
assigned readings
o Genette, Introduction to Paratexts
o Bell, Victorian Paratexts
o Massai, Editorial Pledges in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts
further reading
o Sherman, The Beginning of The End
o Maclean, Pretexts and Paratexts: The Art of the Peripheral
4 March
Text vs Image
assigned readings
o McKitterick, Pictures in Motley
o Armstrong, A Scene in a Library: The First Photographically
Illustrated Book
o Smith, Seeing Things: Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
further reading
o review relevant sections of Greetham, Textual Scholarship, on
production of images
o blog post by Erin Blake: http://collation.folger.edu/2012/02/woodcutengraving-or-what/
o W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual
Representation
o Kirschenbaum, Editor's Introduction [to spec. issue on] Image-Based
Humanities Computing, Computers and the Humanities
11 March
Books vs Archives
field trip: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library; guests: Jennifer Toews and
Natalya Rattan (Fisher Library)
assigned readings
o Panofsky and Moir, Halted by the Archive: The Impact of Excessive
Archival Restrictions on Scholars
o MacNeil, Archivalterity: Rethinking Original Order
o Hedstrom, Archives, Memory, and Interfaces with the Past
further reading
o Greetham, Who's In, Who's Out: The Cultural Poetics of Archival
Exclusion
o Manoff, Theories of the Archives from Across the Disciplines
o Cook, The Archive(s) Is a Foreign Country
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18 March
Authorship Revisited
assigned readings
o Shillingsburg, The Semiotics of Bibliography
o Eggert, Brought to Book: Bibliography, Book History, and the Study
of Literature
o Greetham, Intention in the Text
further reading
o Tanselle, A Rationale of Textual Criticism
o Burke, The Death and Return of the Author
o McGann, The Textual Condition
25 March
1 April
Reading list
Note: assigned readings that dont have a url below can be found in the book history binder at the
Inforum Library (Bissell Building, 4th floor; just ask for the book history binder at the desk).
Items listed as further readings below that dont have a url wont be in the book history binder,
but should be easy to access through the U of T library system. If you have any difficulty locating a
course reading, dont hesitate to let me know via the course discussion board.
Assigned readings
Armstrong, Carol. "A Scene in a Library: The First Photographically Illustrated Book." Scenes in a
Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. 10778.
Bell, Bill. "Victorian Paratexts." Victorian Literature and Culture 27, no. 1 (1999): 327-335.
[http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7762996]
Blair, Ann. "Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550-1700." Journal of
the History of Ideas 64, no. 1 (2003): 11-28. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7727885]
Crain, Patricia. "New Histories of Literacy." Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, ed. A Companion to the
History of the Book. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7875444; volume
on reserve in Inforum: 002.09 C737C]
Duguid, Paul. "Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book." In The Future of the Book,
edited by Geoffrey Nunberg, 63-101. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
Eggert, Paul. "Brought to Book: Bibliography, Book History, and the Study of Literature." The
Library 13 [7th series], no. 1 (2012): 3-32. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7731087]
Folsom, Ed. "Database as Genre: the Epic Transformation of Archives." PMLA 122, no. 5 (2007):
1571-9. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7744793]. Part of an article cluster that also includes:
Peter Stallybrass, "Against Thinking," 1580-7;
Jerome McGann, "Database, Interface, and Archival Fever," 1588-93;
Meredith L. McGill, "Remediating Whitman," 1593-6;
Jonathan Freedman, "Whitman, Database, Information Culture," 1596-602;
N. Katherine Hayles, "Narrative and Database: Natural Symbionts," 1603-8;
Ed Folsom, "Reply," 1608-12
Genette, Grard. "Introduction." In Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation, trans. Jane E. Lewin,
1-15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8369797]
Greetham, David C. "Intention in the Text." In Theories of the Text. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1999. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8569111]
Greetham, David C. "Who's In, Who's Out: The Cultural Poetics of Archival Exclusion." Studies in
the Literary Imagination 32.1 (1999): 1-28. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7757767]; reprinted in
Greetham, The Pleasures of Contamination: Evidence, Text, and Voice in Textual Studies.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2010.
Gillespie, Alexandra. "The History of the Book." New Medieval Literatures 9 (2007): 245-86.
[http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7738515]
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Harding, Robert Coupland. "A Hundred Years Hence." Typo 8 (27 January 1894): 1.
[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-corpus-typo.html]
Hedstrom, Margaret. "Archives, Memory, and Interfaces with the Past." Archival Science 2 (2002):
21-43. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7686241]
Jardine, Lisa, and Anthony Grafton. "'Studied for Action': How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy." Past
and Present 129 (1990): 30-78. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7743009]
MacNeil, Heather. "Archivalterity: Rethinking Original Order." Archivaria 66 (2008): 1-24.
[http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/index]
Massai, Sonia. "Editorial Pledges in Early Modern Dramatic Paratexts." In Renaissance Paratexts,
edited by Helen Smith and Louise Wilson, 91-106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
[http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8372005]
McKenzie, D.F. "The Sociology of a Text: Oral Culture, Literacy, and Print in Early New Zealand." In
Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, 79-130. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
[http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8357833]
McKitterick, David. "Pictures in Motley." Print, Manuscript, and the Search for Order, 1450-1830.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 53-96.
Panofsky, Ruth, and Michael Moir. "Halted by the Archive: The Impact of Excessive Archival
Restrictions on Scholars." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 37, no. 1 (2005): 19-32.
[http://resolver.scholarsportal.info.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/resolve/11989742/v37i0001/19_h
btatioearos]
Raven, James. "From Promotion to Proscription: Arrangements for Reading and Eighteenth-Century
Libraries." In The Practice and Representation of Reading in Early Modern England, edited by James
Raven, Helen Small, and Naomi Tadmor, 175-201. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Round, Phillip H. "Toward an Indian Bibliography." In Removable Type: Histories of the Book in
Indian Country, 1663-1880, 5-19. Chapel Hill, SC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Shep, Syndey J. "Books Without Borders: The Transnational Turn in Book History." In Books
Without Borders, Vol. 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture, edited by Robert Turner
and Mary Hammond, 13-37. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Shillingsburg, Peter. "The Semiotics of Bibliography." Textual Cultures 6, no. 1 (2011): 11-25.
[http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7759539; note: the Literature Online (LION) link in the catalogue entry has
better quality page images than the others]
Smith, Jonathan. "Seeing Things: Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture." In Charles Darwin
and Victorian Visual Culture, 1-43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Striphas, Ted. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2009. [Inforum copy not yet on reserve, but will be by mid-way
through the course]
Uzanne, Octave. "The End of Books." Scribner's Magazine 26 (July-December 1894): 221-31.
[Uzanne - End of Books.pdf]
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Further reading
Asheim, Lester. "New Problems in Plotting the Future of the Book." Library Quarterly 25, no. 4
(1955): 281-92. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7731130]
Blair, Ann. Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
Burke, San. The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault,
and Derrida. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1992.
Cook, Terry. "The Archive(s) Is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists, and the Changing
Archival Landscape." Canadian Historical Review 90, no. 3 (2009): 497-534.
[http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7693084]
Dane, Joseph. The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical
Method. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Eggert, Paul. Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture, and Literature. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies; New
Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1974.
Greetham, D.C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland, 1994.
Grigely, Joseph. Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism. Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press, 1995.
Hobart, Michael E. and Zachary S. Schiffman. Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the
Computer Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Kirshenbaum, Matthew G. "Editor's Introduction [to spec. issue on] Image-Based Humanities
Computing" Computers and the Humanities 36, no. 1 (2002): 3-6. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7698182]
Maclean, Marie. "Pretexts and Paratexts: The Art of the Peripheral." New Literary History 22, no. 2
(1991): 273-9. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7738486]
Manoff, Marlene. "Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines." Portal: Libraries and the
Academy 4, no. 1 (2004): 9-25. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7745380]
Manovich, Lev. Interview by the editors. Switch 5.3 (2000).
[http://www.manovich.net/articles.php; link to Word file transcription near the bottom of the page]
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Mahaffey, Vicki. Intentional Error: The Paradox of Editing James Joyces Ulysses. Representing
Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation. Ed. George Bornstein. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P,
1991. 171-91.
Marche, Stephen. "Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities." Los Angeles Review of
Books (28 October 2012): http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1040
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McGann, Jerome J. The Textual Condition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
McGann, Jerome J. "Ulysses as Postmodern Text: The Gabler Edition." Criticism 27, no. 3 (1985):
283-305. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7700374]
McKenzie, D.F. "The Broken Phial: Non-Book Texts." Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 31-54. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8357833]
Mitchell, W.J.T. Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1994.
Ong, Walter J. "Writing Restructures Consciousness." In Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of
the Word, 78-116. London: Routledge, 1991 [1982]. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/6139309]
Parikka, Jussi. What Is Media Archaeology? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012. 1-18.
Ross, R.M. "Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Texts and Translations." New Zealand Journal of History 6 (1972):
129-57.
Sherman, William. "The Beginning of 'The End': Terminal Paratext and the Birth of Print Culture."
In Renaissance Paratexts, edited by Helen Smith and Louise Wilson, 65-87. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2011. [http://go.utlib.ca/cat/8372005]
Tanselle, G. Thomas. A Rationale of Textual Criticism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1989.