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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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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