2006 Summer Seminar Syllabus
Jay Fliegelman
Department of English
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
(jayf[at]stanford.edu)
Monday (June 12)
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Registration and Coffee, Goddard Daniels House (GDH)
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| 10:30-12:30 |
Session 1 (GDH)
Welcome, Introductions with Jay
Fliegelman, Leah Price and Joanne Chaison, followed by
Books in Early American Art [a handout of images]
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| 12:30 |
Lunch
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| 1:30-3:00 |
Session 2 (GDH)
Reading the Bible: Milk Drawn from Both Breasts of the Testaments
Readings:
- Patricia Crain, The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002), 16-17
- Mary Rowlandson, The Captivity and Restoration of Mary
Rowlandson, The Bicentennial Edition (Printed by
the Town of Lancaster, 1975). NOTE: Any edition of this text with
biblical citations provided is fine, such as the Heath
anthology, or the Bedford series, edited by Neal Salisbury, or the Norton
Anthology of
American Literature.
- Paul Gutjahr, An American Bible: A History of the Good
Book in the United States, 1777-1880 (Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1999), 1-7, 47-74
- William Ellery Channing, Ordination Sermon for
Jared Sparks (Boston, 1819)
- Matthew P. Brown, "The Thick Style: Steady Sellers, Textual Aesthetics
and Early Modern Devotional Reading," PMLA, January 2006, 67-86
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| 3:00-3:15 |
Break
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| 3:15-5:00 |
Session 3 (Antiquarian Hall, Council Room)
The Spirit and the Letter
Readings:
- Frank Lambert, Inventing the Great Awakening (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1999), 3-16, 146
- Charles Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New
England (Boston, 1743), 82-99
- Robert D. Arner, Dobson's Encyclopedia (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), 120
- Cotton Mather, The Magnalia Christi Americana ed.
Kenneth Murdock (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977), 276-277
- Hugh Amory, "Reinventing the Colonial Book" in The Colonial Book in
the Atlantic World, ed. Hugh Amory and David. D. Hall (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000), 26-54
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| 5:00-8:00 |
Reception and Dinner (GDH)
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Tuesday (June 13)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 4 (GDH) Led by Leah Price
Word and thing
Readings:
# indicates reading in The Book History Reader, ed. David
Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (New York: Routledge, 2001).
- Tanselle, G. Thomas. "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography."
Studies in Bibliography 45 (1992), 4-31
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/
- #D.F. McKenzie, "The Book as an Expressive Form", 27-38
- #Adrian Johns, "The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book", 59-76
- Sherman, William H. "'Rather Soiled by Use': Attitudes toward Readers'
Marks." Book Collector 52.4 (2003), 471-90
- McDonald, Peter. "Ideas of the Book and Histories of Literature:
After Theory?" PMLA, January 2006, 214-228
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-12:15 |
Session 5 (GDH) Led by Leah Price
A) Used books
Readings:
# indicates reading in The Book History Reader, ed. David
Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery (New York: Routledge, 2001).
- Roger Chartier, "Preface" and "Communities of Readers" in The
Order of Books (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994), vii-xi,
1-23
- #Stanley Fish, "Interpreting the Variorum" (1980), 350-358
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on
the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. (London: Verso, 1991), 22-46
- Darnton, Robert. "Readers Respond to Rousseau." The Great Cat
Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (London: Allen
Lane, 1984), 215-56
- #Darnton, Robert. "What is the history of books?", 9-26
- Adams, Thomas R., and Nicolas Barker. "A New Model for the Study of
the Book." A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. Ed. Nicolas (ed.)
Barker. (London: British Library, 1993), 5-43
- St Clair, William. "The Political Economy of Reading." 2005.
http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/Publications/johncoffin/stclair.pdf
- RECOMMENDED: Darnton, Robert. "First Steps toward a History of
Reading." The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
(New York: Norton, 1990)
B) Metaphors of navigation.
- Stallybrass, Peter. "Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible."
Books
and Readers in Early Modern England. Eds. Jennifer Andersen and
Elizabeth
Sauer. (Philadelphia: Univ. Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 42-79
- Jerome McGann, "The Rationale of Hypertext":
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html
- Duguid, Paul. "Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the
Book." The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg (Berkeley:
University
of California Press, 1996), 63-102.
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| 12:15 |
Lunch |
| 1:15-3:00 |
Session 6 (GDH)
The Big Picture
Readings:
- David Shields "Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture" in The Colonial
Book in the Atlantic World, ed. by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 434-476
- "The Republic of ABC" in Patricia Crain, The Story of A
(Stanford: Stanford University Press,
2002), 55-101
- Patricia Crain, "Print and Everyday Life in the Eighteenth
Century" in Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and
Commentary, ed. Scott E. Caspar et al. 47-66
- David Hall, "The Politics
of Writing and Writing in Eighteenth-Century America" in Cultures of
Print (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1996), 151-168
- Wendy Wick Reaves, "Effigies Curiously Engraven: Eighteenth-Century
American Portrait Prints" in Prints of New England, ed. Georgia
Brady Barnhill (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1992), 39-68
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| 3:00-3:15 |
Break
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3:15-5:00
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Session 7 (GDH)
Female Subjects: The Dangers of Reading
Readings:
- "American Tract Society" and "Gift Books" in Paul Gutjahr, Popular
American
Literature in the 19th Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2001), 45, 59-83
- Tabitha Gilman Tenney, Female Quixotism, ed. Jean Nienkamp and
Andrea
Collins (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 2-14
- "The Provincial Spectator and the Novel" in Ned C. Landsman, From
Colonials to Provincials (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997),
46-56, 66-71
- Kevin J. Hayes, A Colonial
Woman's Bookshelf (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1996), 54-79
- Susan Scott Parrish, "Fatal Curiosity" in American Curiosity:
Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), 174-189
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| 7:00-8:30 |
Session 8 (GDH)
Conversation with Jay about "his" Books and Collecting |
Wednesday (June 14)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 9 (GDH)
Revolutionary Commonplacing
Readings:
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"Political Fables" in Edward Larkin, Thomas Paine and the Literature
of Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 40-47
- Kenneth Lockridge, Patriarchal Rage ( New York: New York
University
Press, 1992), 1-27, 47-59
- Jefferson's Literary Common Place Book ed. Douglas L. Wilson
(Princeton: Princeton University Press 1989)
30-43
- "Paper Manufacturers, Printers and Bookbinders" in The Arts
and Crafts in New York, 1726-1776 (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970)
233-248
- Zoltan Harastzi, John Adams and the Prophets of Progress
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952), 186-207, 238-247
- Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary
America ed. Catherine La Courreye Blecki and Karin A. Wulf (University
Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), 58-76
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break
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| 10:45-12:00 |
Session 10 (GDH)
Marginalia and Autographs
Readings:
- Edgar Allan Poe, "Autography", Graham's Magazine, November
1841,
224-234 and "Autography," December 1841, 273-286
- "The Lost World of Colonial Handwriting" and "Handwriting,
Individuality, and the Unconscious" in Tamara Plakins
Thornton, Handwriting in America
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 3-31, 78-92
- H.J. Jackson, Romantic Readers: The Evidence of Marginalia (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 153-178
- H.J. Jackson, "Motives for Marginalia" in Marginalia: Readers
Writing in Books (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2001), 81-100
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| 12:00 |
Lunch
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| 1:00-1:15 |
Group Photograph
(location to be announced)
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| 1:15-3:15 |
Session 11 (Antiquarian Hall, Council Room)
Workshop on "Books and Their Readers."
Organized by Joanne Chaison
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| 3:15-3:30 |
Break
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| 3:30-5:00 |
Session 12 (Antiquarian Hall, Council Room)
Witness of Herman Melville
Herman Melville readings:
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| 6:00 |
Dinner at the home of John and Lea Hench
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Thursday (June 15)
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 13 (GDH)
Print and the City
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, "Obscenity in the City" in Rereading Sex:
Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century
America (New York: Knopf, 2002), 210-248
- "The Liberty of Intellect and the Taste for Fiction," in Thomas Augst,
The Clerk's Tale (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 191-206
- Candy Gunther Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing
Publishing and Reading in America 1789-1880 (Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2004), 27-45
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
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| 10:45-12:00 |
Session 14
Economics
Readings:
- "American Romanticism and the Depression of 1837" in William Charvat,
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870 (Columbus:
Ohio State University Press, 1968), 49-67
- Marva Banks, "Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Antebellum Black Response"
in Readers in History ed. James Machor, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1993), 209-227
- "International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print" in
Meredith L. McGill, American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting,
1834-1853 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), 76-108
- "Judging Books
by their Covers," in Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and
Literature in America ed. Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles (Amherst:
University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), 75-115
- "Printer and Author" in
Rollo Silver, The American Printer, 1787-1825 (Charlottesville, :
University of Virginia, 1967), 97-114.
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| 12:15 |
Lunch
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| 1:15-3:00 |
Session 15 (GDH)
Collecting
Readings:
- "Telling Objects : A Narrative Perspective on Collecting" in The
Cultures of Collecting ed. B. John Eklsner and Roger Cardinal
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), 97-115
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| 3:00-3:30 |
Presentation of certificates |
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| 3:30-4:30 |
Session 16 (GDH)
Concluding session--summary/overview
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