Overview

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

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Author:   Matteo Pangallo ,  Emily B. Todd
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint:   University of Massachusetts Press
Weight:   0.275kg
ISBN:  

9781625347312

ISBN 10:   1625347316
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   26 May 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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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

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"""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"

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

“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

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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.

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