Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History: Extra Pedagogical Resources

Additional pedagogical essays (web only)

Teaching the Electronic Manuscript

Nicole Clifton, Northern Illinois University

Clifton describes how to use online resources--in this case the Auchinleck manuscript, available through the National Library of Scotland, to teach medieval literature.

Infusing Bibliography and Book History with Hyper-Textuality: A Course for Undergraduates

Katherine D. Harris, San Jose State University

Harris overviews a course in which students read bibliographic theory, analyse scholarly and lay hypertextual archives, and create their own hypertexts by coding in html.
Course Schedule | Sample Discussion Questions | Assignment: Group Presentation

Teaching Book History at Texas A & M

Craig Kallendorf and Steven Escar Smith, Texas A & M University

Kallendorf and Smith both overview how they teach an undergraduate course in book history and talk about the resources (both human and institutional) they use to support a growing curriculum in book history.
Syllabus included in essay.

What in the World?: Students as World Literature Editors

Jane M. Kinney, Valdosta State University

Kinney broadens the discussion of textual criticism to world literature where her students engage in editorial projects, in this case the early Russian text known as The Igor Tale or The Lay of Igor's Campaign.

Resources supporting specific essays, alphabetically by author's last name

Timothy Barrett, 'Papermaking, History and Practice'
Syllabus: Papermaking | Syllabus: Advanced Papermaking | Recommended Resources

• Recommended Resources
  
  • LIMA : Literary Manuscript Analysis
  • Gravell Watermark Archive

Tatjana Chorney, 'Book History and Reader Response Theory: Teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and King Lear'
Recommended Readings

• Recommended Resources:
  
  • Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) website with pedagogical resources
  • David Richman's January 1997 essay from Shaksper Net

Jean Lee Cole, 'History of the Book in the American Literature Classroom: On the Fly and on the Cheap'

• English 203: Major American Writers
  Syllabus (includes assignment information) | Course Outline | Time Capsule 3: Salem, using online archives
• English 389: Gender in American Literature, 1890-1910
  Syllabus | Time Capsule: Gender and Magazines | Time Capsule: The American Home, using online archives

• English 366, American Literature to World War I
  Time Capsule: Nineteenth-Century Books: This assignment from English 355 (a course not discussed in Lee's essay) demonstrates how the assignment works with books found in the college library, rather than with online resources.

• Recommended Resources (discussed in essay)
  
  • The University of Virginia's Salem Witchcraft Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
  • The University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School's Famous American Trials: The Salem Witch Trials
  • Cornell University's HEARTH Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History

• Additional Recommended Resources
  
  • Making of America at http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
  • The Library of Congress's American Memory at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
  • Research Society for American Periodicals Resources for Research
  • HarpWeek online exhibits, incorporating page images from Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912
  • University of Virginia's Mark Twain and His Times
  • University of Virginia's Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture Ed. Stephen Railton
  • The Walt Whitman Archive Ed. Ed Folsom and Kenneth Price
  • University of Nebraska's The Willa Cather Archive Ed. Susan Rosowski and Andrew Jewell

Erik Delfino, 'Book History and Librarian Education for the Twenty-First Century"

• Recommended Resources
  
  • Barbara Tillett, What is FRBR? A Conceptual Model for the Bibliographic Universe (Washington DC, Library of Congress, 2004)

Mirjam Foot, 'Historical Bibliography for Rare-Book Librarians'

• Recommended Resources
  
  • Course Description for 'Introduction to Rare Book Librarianship'
  • Course Description for 'Advanced Rare Books Librarianship'

Ian Gadd's 'From Printing Type to Blackboard™: Teaching the History of the Early Modern Book To Literary Undergraduates in a "New" UK University'

• CoursePack | Assignment: Analyzing Tables of Contents | Recommended Readings
• Recommended Resources
  
  • Hobo, "a webspace for History of the Book Events and Resources"

R Carter Hailey, 'The Bibliographic Analysis of Antique Laid Paper: a Method'

• Recommended Readings

Ann R Hawkins's 'Teaching Textual Criticism: Students as Book Detectives and Scholarly Editors'

• Annotating a Text for a Reader
• Choosing What to Annotate
• Writing Annotations
• Assessing Annotations

Maura Ives, 'Integrating "Bibliography" with "Literary Research": a Comprehensive Approach'

• Course Reading List
• Recommended Resources
  
  • ACRL Literatures in English Section Ad hoc Committee on Literary Research Competencies (Anne Jordan Baker, Jeanne Pavy, and Judy Reynolds). 'Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English Draft'

Thomas Kinsella and Wilman Spawn, 'Learning from Binders: Investigating the Bookbinding Trade in Colonial Philadelphia'

• Recommended Resources
  Philadelphia PAGenweb Archives, a sub-page of The PAGenWeb Project and the USGen- Web Project, provides web-based copies of census data, church registers, land records, and will and estate records, along with other documents of genealogical interest

Matt Kirschenbaum, 'How Things Work: Teaching the Technologies of Literature'

• English 467: The Computer and The Text
  Course Website, archived by Kirschenbaum
• English 570: Electronic Texts and Images
  Course Website, archived by Kirschenbaum
• Recommended Resources
  
  • The Blake Archive
  • Ron Broglio's Frankenstein MOO

Jennifer Phegley, '"They are not just big, dusty novels": Teaching Hard Times within the Context of Household Words'

• Assignment: Using excerpts from Household Words
• Assignment: Researching Hard Times in its Periodical Context

Sydney Shep, 'Bookends: Towards a Poetics of Material Form'

• Recommended Resources
  
  • International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Cataloging Section of the FRBR Review Group. Final Report
  • Johanna Drucker, 'The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-Space' (2003)
  • Gary Frost, 'Future of the Booke' for Craft, Culture, Critique symposium, April 2004

Steven Escar Smith, 'A Lively and Clear Comprehension: The History and Influence of the Bibliographical Laboratory

• Recommended Resources
  
  • James Mosley's Acceptance Remarks for APHA's 2003 Individual Award, Annual Meeting of the American Printing History Association, New York, New York, 25 January 2003

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