Group I Special Topics I

This seminar traces a history of the book and print in Britain. Seminar modules are structured around key shifts in print format, means of production, and notions of authorship and readership. One of our weekly meetings will take place in W.D. Jordan Library’s Special Collections, where we will work hands-on with rare books and other materials. Readings will concern literacy, manuscript culture, the codex, the Stationers’ Company, libraries and other reading publics, presses, moveable type, censorship, archives, and the book trade’s cultural impacts. Multiple small projects and response papers will form the basis of evaluation.