Ann Blair

History of the book and of reading exam field reading list Students taking an exam with me in this field should form their own reading list from the various sections below. Further additions are also welcome. Stars indicate items I consider particularly important. GENERAL/MULTIPERIOD Luigi Balsamo, Bibliography *Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, eds A History of Reading in the West (first published 1997). useful collection of articles spanning antiquity to the present. Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books, tr. Lydia Cochrane (Stanford UP, 1994). ---. Correspondence: models of letter-writing from the middle ages to the 19th century Roger chartier, alain boureau and cecile Dauphin. tr. Christopher Woodall (Polity press, Cambridge UK, 1997) Robert Darnton, "What is the history of books"? in The Kiss of Lamourette *David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery, The Book History Reader, useful major articles excerpted. Frasca-Spada and Jardine, N eds., Books and the Sciences in History (2001) *Gaskell, Philip, A new introduction to bibliography (Winchester: St Pauls' bibliographies and New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll P, 1995). Useful for reference for material bibliography. Andrew Hunter, ed, Thornton and Tully's scientific books, libraries and collectors: a study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the history of science (Ashgate, 2000). Christian Jacob, Des Alexandries I. du livre au texte (2001) ---. Des Alexandries II. les métamorphoses du lecteur Both volumes span antiquity to the present. Love, Harold. Attributing authorship: an introduction (2002) ---, "Early modern print culture: assessing the models." parergon. journal fo teh australian adn new zealand association for medieval and early modern studies 20 (2003): 45-64. *Henry-Jean Martin, The History and Power of Writing (Univ of Chicago Press, 1994). useful textbook Jonathan Rose, "The history of books: revised and enlarged." basically a review essay of recent work. in The Darnton Debate: books and revolution in the 18th ct, ed Haydn T Mason.

THEORY Walter Benjamin, Illuminations (NY: Schocken Books, 1969), including: "the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," pp. 217-252. Stanley Fish, Is there a text in this class? (1980) Gérard Genette, Seuils (Paris: Seuil, 1987) Goody, Jack, The logic of writing and the organization of society: studies in literacy, family, culture and the state (1986). ---. Literacy in traditional societies CUP 1968. Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962) *John Halverson, "Goody and the implosion of the literacy thesis," man 27:2 (1992): 301-17. critique of Goody's literacy thesis Wolfgang Iser, The Act of Reading (1978) Hans Robert Jauss, Literaturgeschichte als Provokation (1974), tr. F (1978). ---.Hans-Robert Jauss, Toward an aesthetic of reception (1982) D. McKenzie, Bibliography and the sociology of texts (1986) ---. "speech-mss-print" in New directions in textual studies ed Dave Oliphant and Robin Bradford. Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (Toronto: Univ of Toronto P, 1962) Useful to look at. Walter J. Ong, SJ, The Presence of the word: some prolegomena for cultural and religious history (Yale UP 1967) *---. Orality and literacy: the techonologizing of the word (London and NY: Routledge, 1982). Schwartz, Hillel, The culture of the copy: striking likenesses, unreasonable facsimiles (NY: Zone books, 1996). Steiner, George. Language and Silence: essays on langauge, literature and the inhuman (NY: Atheneum, 1972), including "On reading Marshall McLuhan" Suleiman, Susan and Inge Crosman eds., The reader in the text: essays on audience and interpretation (PUP 1980)

ANTIQUITY and LATE ANTIQUITY Paolo Arns, la technique du livre selon St Jerome, 1953. brief Shane Butler, The Hand of cicero Routledge, 2002. Lionel Casson, Libraries in the ancient world. yale up 2001. Ruth Finnegan, Literacy and orality: studies in the technology of communication Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1988. Harry Y Gamble, Books and readers in the early church: a history of early Christian Texts (Yale UP, 1995) Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams, The transformation of the book: Origen, Eusebius and the Library at Caesarea (2006) Eric Havelock The literate revolution in Greece and its cultural consequences (1982) ---. Preface to Plato (1963) Knox, Bernard. article on silent reading in antiquity in Greek roman and byzantine studies (1968) Ernst Posner, Archives in the ancient world (HUP, 1972). L. D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974, 2nd ed). A reference book for the transmission of classical authors. *Kevin Robb, Literacy and paideia in ancient greece (1994): intro has a concise summary of the debates in this field. Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How writing came about Austin: U of Texas P, 1992, 1996 Jocelyn Penny Small, Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive studies of memory and literacy in classical antiquity (London and NY: Routledge, 1997) Brian Stock, Augustine the reader: meditation, self-knowledge and the ethics of interpretation (HUP, 1996)

MIDDLE AGES Peter Biller and Anne Hudson eds, Heresy and Literacy 1000-1530 (1994). Michelle Brown, "The role of the wax tablet in medieval literacy: a reconsiderstiaon in light of a recent find from York," The Britihs Library journal (1994) Linda L. Brownrigg, ed., Medieval book production: assessing the evidence proceedings of the second conference of the seminar in the history of the book to 1500, oxfrod July 1988. Los Altos Hills, Ca: Anderson-Lovelace, The Red Gull Press, 1990). Richard de Bury, Philobiblon. notes from tr. E.C Thomas facing latin (Oxford: Blackwell 1960, repr 1970) Mary Carruthers, The book of memory: a study of memory in medieval culture CUP 1990. *Michael Clanchy, From Memory to Written record: England, 1066-1207 (HUP, 1979). Janet Coleman, Medieval readers and writers 1350-1400 (COlumbia UP, 1981) Joyce Coleman [different from Janet Coleman], Public reading and the reading public in late medieval england and France CUP 1996 John Dagenais, The ethics of reading in manuscript culture (PUP, 1994). de Hamel, Christopher, A history of illuminated manuscripts (1986) ---. Scribes and illuminators British Museum, 1992 Illich, Ivan, In the vineyard of the text (1994) McKitterick, Rosamund. Books, scribes and learning in the Frankish kingdoms, 6th-9th ct (1994) ---. The Carolingians and the written word (1989) ---. ed. The uses of literacy in early medieval Europe (1990) Henri-Jean Martin and Jean Vezin eds., Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit (Paris: Promodis: editions du cercle de la Librairie, 1990) Minnis, A.J. Medieval theory of authorship: scholastic lit attitudes in the later MA (1984). Murdoch, John E. Album of Science: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984) Malcolm Parkes, Scribes, scripts and readers---. Pause and Effect: punctuation in the West (1993)

Armando Petrucci, Writers and readers in medieval italy. studies in the hist of written culture YUP, 1995. 2318n6.4w51 ---. Public letters: script, power and culture (1993). *Mary and Richard Rouse, Authentic Witnesses: approaches to medieval texts and manuscripts U of ND P, 1991. Paul Saenger, "Silent reading: its impact on late medieval script and society," Viator, Medieval and Ren Studies 13 (1982), 367-414. ---. Space between words Brian Stock, Listening for the text: on the uses of teh past (Philadelphia, : U of Penn Press, 1990 *---. The implications of literacy: written language and models of interpretation in the 11th and 12th centuries PUP 1983.

CHINA William P Alford, To steal a book is an elegant offense: intellectual property law in chinese civilization (1995) Cynthia Brokaw, Commerce in culture: the Sibao book trade in the Qing and republican periods (2007) ---. Printing and book culture in late imperial china (2005) Susan Cherniack, "Book culture and textual transmission in sung china," Harvard Journal of Asiatic studies (1994) Lucille Chia, Printing for Profit hup 2002 Achilles Fang, "Bookman's manual" in Harvard J of asiatic studies 14 (1951), pp. 215-60: author born ca 1680 and died after 1749. ---. achilles fang, "bookman's decalogue" in Harvard journal of asiatic studies 13 (1950), 132-73. Pan Jixing, "papermaking in China," Harvard Asia Pacific Review: The Sci Rev in Asia (Fall 2002) Constance R Miller, Technical and cultural prerequisites for the invention of printing in China and the West (San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1983). Joseph Needham, Science and civlization in China vol. 5, chemistry and chemical technology part I: paper and printing, by Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin (CUP, 1985). Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, "Technical aspects of Chinese printing," in Chinese Rare Books In American Collections, ed. Soeren Edgren (China House Gallery: 1984) pp. 16-25. copied. Zeitlin, Judith and Lydia Liu with Ellen Widmer, Writing and materiality in China. Essays in honor of Patrick Hanan (HUP 2003). JAPAN Kornicki, The book in Japan: a cultural history from the beginnings to the 19th ct

ISLAMIC WORLD M.W. Albin review essay of studies in middle eastern printing history in Libraries and culture (1988): 365-73. George N Atiyeh, The book in the Islamic world: the written word and communication in the middle East (1995) Jonathan M Bloom, Paper before print. the history and impact of paper in the islamic world YUP 2001. M. Krek, "Arabic block printing as precursor." American research center in Egypt newsletter (1985): pp. 12-16. Johannes Pedersen, The arabic book tr Geoffrey French. PUP 1984. MESOAMERICA Elizabeth Hill Boone and Walter D Mignolo eds Writing without words: alternative literacies in mesoamerica and the Andes (1994). Joyce Marcus, Mesoamerican writing systems PUP.

PRINTING and TRANSITION TO PRINT Beal, Peter, In praise of scribes: manuscripts and their makers in 17th-century england (1998) *Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing press as an agent of change CUP 1979 ---. a shorter version: The Printing revolution in early modern Europe (Canto books, cup, 1983). --- [a convenient format for some] "Some conjectures about the impact of printing on Western society and thought: a preliminary report" Journal of Modern History (1968) (on-line) *"How revolutionary was the print revolution?" a forum featuring a debate between Elizabeth Eisenstein and Adrian Johns, American Historical Review 107:1 (2002), pp. 84-128. (on-line) Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, The coming of the book: the impact of printing 1450-1800 London: Verso, 1990. Feld, M. D. "The early evolution of the authoritative text," in Harvard Library Bulletin 26:1 (Jan 1978), 81-111. J-François Gilmont, The Reformation and the book (Ashgate, 1998):st andrews studies in reformation history. *Anthony Grafton, "The Importance of Being Printed." Journal of Interdisciplinary history (1980) review of Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an agent of change. Lotte Hellinga, "Manuscripts in the hands of printers" in J. B. Trapp ed, Manuscripts in the fifty years after the invention of printing (1983). ?? Francis Higman, Piety and the people: religious printing in French, 1511-51 1996. Sandra Hindman and James Douglas Farquhar, Pen to Press: illustrated manuscripts and printed books in the first century of printing (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Dept of Art, 1977) Sandra Hindman, ed. Printing the written word: the social history of books 1450-1520 (Cornell u p, 1991). *Rudolf Hirsch, Printing, selling and reading 1450-1550 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1974) Janet Ing, Johann Gutenberg and his Bible (NY: the typophiles, 1998) *Harold Love, Scribal publication in seventeenth-century England (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1993). Martin Lowry, The world of Aldus Manutius Cornell UP 1979. Henri-Jean Martin, Print, Power and People in 17th-century France, tr. David Gerard (Metuchen NJ: the Scarecrow press, 1993). ---. La naissance du livre moderne (2001)

Moxon, Joseph. Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-4) Edited by Herbert Davis and Harry Carter. OUP 1958 *Brian Richardson, Print culture in Renaissance Italy: the editor and the vernacular text, 1470-1600 (CUP, 1994) ---. Printing, writers and readers in Renaissance Italy CUP 1999. Paul Saenger and Kimberly van kampen eds., The Bible as book: the first printed editions Oak Knoll P, 1999.

MONTAIGNE George Hoffmann, Montaigne's Career *---. "the Montaigne Monopoly: revising the Essais under the French Privilege System," PMLA (1993) Alain Legros, Essais sur poutres (2001) Adi Ophir, "A place of knowledge recreated: the library of Montaigne," Science in context (1991): 163-89. SHAKESPEARE *David Kastan, Shakespeare and the book. David Kastan ed., A companion to shakespeare CUP 1999. a whole section on reading; another play-writing an dplaying and a section on printing. EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Juliet Fleming, Grafitti and the writing arts of early modern England (2001) Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in early modern England OUP 2000: read ch. 1. ---. The Christian's ABC catechisms and catechiszing in england 1530-1740 Clarendon P, 1996. David Loades, Politics, censorhip and the English Reformation (1991) Harold Love, The culture and commerce of texts (1993) Iain McClaman, Radical underworld: prophets, revolutionaries and pornographers in london 1795-1840 (1988): london underworld like darnton's Nigel Smith, Literature and revolution in England, 1640-60. Yale UP 1994. Teresa Watt, Cheap print and popular piety 1550-1640 (1991)

COPYRIGHT and PRIVILEGES Elizabeth Armstrong, Before copyright: the french book-privilege system 1486-1526 (1990) John Feather, Publishing, Piracy and Politics: an historical study of copyright in Britain (1994) Adrian Johns, The Nature of the book *Jseph Loewenstein, The author's due: printing and the prehistory of copyright (U of Chicago Pr, 2002). Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: the invention of copyright (HUP, 1993) CENSORSHIP *Robert Darnton, Forbidden best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France (1996). *---. "A Police inspector sorts his files," Great Cat Massacre. Gigliola Fragnito ed. Church, Censorship and Culture in postridentine Italy Peter Godman, The silent masters: censors in the high middle ages (2000) Paul Grendler, Culture and Censorship in Late Renaissance Italy and France (1981) Annabel Patterson, Censorship and Interpretation (1984) Alfred Soman, "Press, Pulpit and Censorship in France before Richelieu," in Proceedings of the American Philosophocal Society 1976 120(6) pp439-63. *Hirsch, Rudolf. The Printed Word: Its Impact and Diffusion. Variorum Reprints, London, 1978. ch. on "Pre-Reformation Censorship of Printed Books." John Monfasani "The First Call for Press Censorship: Niccolo Perotti, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Antonio Moreto, and the Editing of Pliny's Natural History," Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988): 1-31. Francis Higman, Censorship and the Sorbonne

AUTHORSHIP Cynthia Brown, Poets, patrons and printers (Cornell UP, 1995) Anthony Grafton, The Footnote--a curious history (HUP 1997) Lisa Jardine, Erasmus, Man of Letters PUP 1993 Lawrence Lipking, Samuel Johnson: the life of an author (HUP 1998) Kevin Pask, The emergence of the English author: scripting the life of the poet in early modern England (1996) Alain Viala, La naissance de l'écrivain Woodmansee, Martha, The author, art and the market 91994) ---. and Peter Jaszi eds The construction of authorship: textual appropriation in law and literature OWNERSHIP, LIBRARIES Christian Jacob, Le pouvoir des bibliothèques Paris: Albin Michel, 1996. Steven Shapin, "The Mind in its own place: science and solitude in seventeenth-century England," Science in Context 4 (1990) Dora Thornton, The Scholar in his study (1997) Berthold L. Ullman and Philip A Stadter, The Public library of Renaissance Florence: Niccolo Niccoli, Cosimo de Medici and the library of San Marco (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1972).

POPULAR BOOKS *Roger Chartier. Cultural uses of print in early modern France (1989) ---. The culture of print: power and uses of print in early modern Europe (1989) David Cressy, "Books as totems in 17th ct england and New England," Journal of library history, philosophy and comparative librarianship 21 (1986): 92-106. *Natalie Davis, "Printing and the people" and "Proverbial wisdom and popular errors," in Society and culture in early modern France. *Carlo Ginzburg, The cheese and the worms; along with Domenico Scandella known as Menocchio: his trial before the Inquisition, ed. Andrea del Col (1996) Paul Grendler, "Form and function in Italian Ren popular books," RQ 46 (1993): 451-85. David Kunzel, The early comic strip: narrative strips and picture stories in the eu broadsheet from 1450-1825 (U Cal P, 1973) Steven Ozment, on Protestant pamphlets in Reformation Europe: a guide to research. Robert Scribner, articles and book on German print culture. *Margaret Spufford, Small books and pleasant histories: popular fiction and its readership in 17th ct England (Univ of Georgia press, Athens Ga, 1981) LITERACY Michael T. Clanchy, "Looking Back from the Invention of Printing," in Literacy in historical perspective, ed. Daniel Resnick (1983), pp. 23-42. Harvey J. Graff, The legacies of Literacy: continuities and contradictions in Western culture and society (Bloomington IN: Indiana Univ Press, 1987) *R. A. Houston, Literacy in Early Modern Europe: culture and education 1500-1800 (London and NY: Longman, 1988). Thomas Laqueur, "Toward a culture ecology of literacy in England 1600-1850," in Literacy in historical perpsective, ed. Daniel Resnick (1983)

READING *Jennifer Andersen and Elizabeth Sauer, Books and reader in early modern England. material studies U Penn P, 2002. *Ann Blair, The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science chs 2 and 6. Robert Darnton, "First steps toward a history of reading" in The Kiss of Lamourette*---. "Readers respond to Rousseau," The Great Cat Massacre Anthony Grafton, Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (U of Michigan P, 1997) *---. Grafton and Jardine, "Studied for Action: how Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy," Past and present (1990) James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), intro to vol. 1 on kinds of reading James Raven ed, The practice and representation of reading (1996) Jonathan Rose, "Rereading the English Common reader: a preface to a history of audiences," Journal of the history of ideas (1992): 47-70 --- "How historians study reader response: or what did Jo think of Bleak House?" in Literature in the marketplace: 19th ct British publishing and reading practices ed John O Jordan and Robert L Patten (1995). William H Sherman, John Dee: the Politics of reading and writing in the english Renaissance (1995) Virginia F. Stern, Gabriel Harvey: his life, marginalia and library (oxford: Calrendon P, 1979) Paul A. Winckler, Reader in the history of books and reading

BROADSIDES, PAMPHLETS AND NEWSPAPERS Andrea Carlino, Paper bodies: a catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687 Medical History supplement no 19, (1999). Robert Darnton and Carla Hesse, The Press in France 1775-1800 Mark Edwards, Printing, propaganda and Martin Luther Elizabeth Eisenstein, Grub street abroad: French cosmopolitan press under Louis XIV to F rev (1992) Arlette Farge, Subversive words (1994) Adam Fox, Oral and literate culture in England 1500-1700 (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2000): ch. 7 on rumour and news. Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin 1900 John Gross, The rise and fall of the man of letters: aspects of English literary life since 1800. Alexadran Halasz, The marketplace of print: pamphlets and the public sphere in early modern England CUP 1997. Robert Harris, Politics and the rise of the press: Britain and France 1620-1800 (London: Routledge, 1996). Kronick, David, Scientific and technical periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries (1991) David Paul Nord, "Reading the newspaper: strategies and politics of reader response, chicago, 1912-17," Journal of communication (1995): 66-93. Jeremy Popkin, "Journals: the new face of news" in Revolution in print: the press in france 1775-1800 Cathy Lynn Preston and Michael J preston eds., The other print tradition: essays on chapbooks, broadsides and related ephemera (1995). Raymond, Joad. News, newspapers and society in early modern Britain london: Frank CAss, 1990. uses of advertising; how newspapers sold books. Jeffrey K. Sawyer, Printed Poison: Pamphlet Propaganda, Faction Politics and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth-Century France.

WOMEN AND BOOKS Susan Broomhall, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France (Aldershot, Hamphire, U,K.: Ashgate, 2002): Natalie Z. Davis, Women on the margins and essays in Society and Culture in 16th ct france. Kate Flint, The Woman reader 1837-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). (excerpted History of Book reader) Gallagher, Chaterine, Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace 1670-1820 (1994) Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Dena Goodman, Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France (Cornell UP, 1995). Grafton and Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities hc. 2 on women humanists Joan Kelly-Gadol, Did women have a Renaissance?" in Becoming visible (ref above) Margaret Patterson Hannay, ed., Silent but for the world: Tudor women as patrons, translators, and writers of religious works (Kent, Ohio: the Kent State Up, 1985). Carla Hesse, "French women in print 1750-1800," in The Darnton debate ed Haydn Mason. Suzanne Hull, Chaste, silent and obedient: English books for women 1475-1640 San Marino, CA : Huntington Library, 1982. David Herlihy, "'Did women have a Renaissance' reconsidered" medievalia and humanistica (1985): Cecile M Jagodzinski, Privacy and print: reading and writing in 17th ct England (1999). on Margaret Cavendish adn Aphra Behn. McDowell, Paula, The women of grub street: press, politics and gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730 (1998) Meale, Carol, Women and literature in Britain 1150-1500 Deborah Parker, "Women in the book trade in Italy, 1475-1620," Renaissance Quarterly 1996: 509ff. Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith eds., Women and the book: assessing the visual evidence London: British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Wiesner, Mary. Women and Gender in early modern Europe

ENLIGHTENMENT Giles Barber, Studies in the Booktrade of the European Enlightenment (London: the Pindar Press, 1994) *Chartier, Cultural origins of the French Revolution: ch "do books make revolutions?" *Darnton, The Forbidden Best-sellers of pre-revolutionary France (NY: Norton, 1996) ---. The literary underground of the old regime DeMaria, Robert "Samuel Johnson and the reading revolution" Studies in the 18th century, Eighteenth Century Life 16 (1992) Dena Goodman, "L'ortografe des dames" gender and language, French historical studies (2002) on-line on hollis. Jean-Marie Goulemot, Ces livres qu'on ne lit que d'une main (1991). Hunt, Lynn, ed. The invention of pornography. Daniel Mornet, in Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France (1910) copied. Revolution in Print: the press in France 1775-1800, ed Robert Darnton and Daniel Roche NOVEL Janine Barchas, Graphic design, print culture and the 18th ct novel CUP2003. Josephin Donovan, Women and the rise of the novel 1405-1726 Margaret Doody, The True story of the novel Rutgers UP 1996 Paul Hunter, Before novels: the cultural contexts of 18th-century English fiction (1990) Michael McKeon, The origins of the English Novel 1600-1740 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987) John Tinnon Taylor, Early Opposition to the English novel: the popular reaction from 1760 to 1830 (NY: King's Crown Pres, 1943). Ian Watt, Origin of the novel

NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES James Smith Allen, In the public eye: a history of reading in modern France (1991) *Richard D Altick, The English common reader: a social history of the mass reading public 1800-1900 (Univ of chicago Press, 1957) and see Jonathan Rose, "Rereading the English Common reader: a preface to a history of audiences," Journal of the history of ideas (1992): 47-70 R. Howard Bloch, God's Plagiarist: being an account of the fabulous industry and irregular commerce of teh Abbé Migne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994). Brantlinger, "the case of the poisonous book: mass literacy as a threat in 19th ct British fiction," Victorian review (1994): 117-33. W.H. Brock and A.J. Meadows, The lamp of Learning: Taylor and Francis and the Development of Science Publishing (London and PHiladelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1984 [no date that I could find--from call number] Nigel Cross, the common writer Darnton, Berlin journal 1989-90 (1991) [on the role of media in the fall of the Wall] Lee Erickson, The economy of literary form: English literature and the industrialization of publishing 1800-50 (1996). N. N. Feltes, modes of production of victorian novels. U of c P, 1986. + in hist of book reader excerpt Francois Furet et Mona Ozouf, lire et ecrire: l'alphabetisation des francais de calvin a jules ferry esp vol. 1. Fyfe, Aileen. "Copyrights and Competition: Producing and Protecting Children's Books in the Nineteenth Century," Publishing History. 45: 1999, pp. 35-59. ---. "Publishing and the Classics: Paley's Natural Theology and other nineteenth-century works of science." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2002), pp. 729-51. Malcolm Gee and Tim Kirk, Printed Matters: Printing, publishing and urban culture in Europe in the modern period (2002) T .W. Heyck, The transformation of intellectual life in victorian Britain (1982) Richard Hoggart, The uses of Literacy (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992). Leslie Howsam, Cheap Bibles: ninetheenth-century publishing and the British and foreign Bible society (1992)

Jordan, John O and Robert L Patten eds. Literature in the marketplace: 19th ct British publishing and reading practices. David M. Knight, Natural Science books in England 1600-1900 (London: B.T. Batsford, 19720. Martyn Lyons, Le triomphe du livre: une histoire sociologique de la lecture dans la France du XIXe s (paris: promodis, éditions du cercle de la librairie, 1987). McAleer, Joseph Popular reading and publishing in Britain 1914-50 (1992) Parent-Lardeur, Francoise. Les cabinets de lecture (Paris: Payot, 1982) James Secord, Victorian sensation: the extraordinary publication, reception and secret authorship of the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (2000) Robert Selig, "'The valley of the shadow of books': alienation in gissing's new grub street." in Nineteenth century fiction 25 (1970): 188-98. John Sutherland, "The victorian novelists: who were they?" in The book history reader U.S. Hugh Amory and David Hall eds A history of the book in America vol. 1 the colonial book in the atlantic world CUP 2000. Bernard Bailyn and John B Hench eds., The press and the american revolution (Worcest: antiquarian soc, 1980). Richard Brodhead, Cultures of letters: scenes of reading and writing in 19th ct America Richard D Brown, Knowledge is Power: the diffusion of information in early America 1700-1865 (1989) Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the world: the rise of the novel in America (Oxford: OUP, 1986). Michael Denning, Mechanic accents: dime novels and working class culture in America Lodnon :Verso, 1987. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography. Norton edition. William J. Gilmore, Reading becomes necessity of life: material and cultural life in rural New England 1780-1835 (Knoxveille TN: U of TN P, 1989)

James Green "Ben Franklin as publisher and bookseller" in Reappraising Benjamin Franklin, J.A. Leo Lemay ---. James N Green "Thinking about Benjamin Franklin's library" in Finding colonial Americas, ed Carla mulford and david shields. David D. Hall, Cultures of Print: essays in the history of the book (amherst: U Mass P, 1996). ---. "Uses of literacy" in Worlds of wonder; days of judgment HUP Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, The book in America: a history of the making and selling of books in the U.S. 2nd ed (NY: R. R. Bowker Co., 1951). David Henkin, City reading. written words and public spaces in antebellum NY (1998) Lehuu, carnival on the page Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/ Lowbrow: the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America (HUP, 1988) Janice Radway, A feeling for books: the book of the month club, literary taste and middle-class desire (1997). ---. Reading the romance (excepted in History of Book reader) James Raven, London booksellers and American customers: transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library Society 1748-1811 (2001) Joan Shelley Rubin, The Making of Middle Brow Culture (Univ of North Carolina Press, 1992) Tamara Plakins Thornton, Handwriting in America: a cultural history (Yale UP 1996) Michael Warner, The Letters of the Republic: publication and the public sphere in 18th-century America (HUP, 1990) Edwin Wolf II, The Book Culture of a Colonial American city: philadelphia books, bookmen and booksellers (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1988). Lawrence Wroth, An American Bookshelf, 1755 (U of penn press, 1934). Ronald Zboray, Fictive people: economic developemnt and the American reading public

INFORMATION AGE Sven Birkerts, Gutenberg elegies: the fate of reading in an electronic age R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse eds., Future Libraries (U of California P, 1993. John Y. Cole, ed. Books in our future: perspectives and proposals (Washington: Library of Congress, 1987). John Feather, The information society: a study of continuity and change (1994) Gitelman, Lisa. New media 1740-1915 (2003) Christina Haas, Writing Technology: Studies on the materiality of literacy (Mahwah, NJ: Larence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1996). Trevor Haywood, Info-rich/ info-poor: access and exchange in the global information society (1995) David M Levy, Scrolling forward: making sense of documents in the digital age J-Francois Lyotard: the postmodern condition, first few pp. Jerome McGann, radiant textuality: literature after the www. Geoffrey Nunberg ed., The future of the book (U of California P, 1996)