SYLLABUS

Selected Readings in Western Socio-Cultural History:

Perspective from the History of Books (Fall 2011)

Instructor: Prof. Liu Yonghua

授課：劉永華

Part I. What Is Book History?

01. Robert Darnton. “What Is the History of Books?” In Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History, New York: W. W. Norton, 1990, pp. 107-135.

02. D. F. McKenzie. “The Book as an Expressive Form.” In D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 9-30.

Part II. The Impact of Print

03. Walter J. Ong. “Orality and Litaracy: Writing Restructures Consiciousness.” In Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, London and New York: Routledge, 2002 [1982], pp. 77-113.

04. D. F. McKenzie. “The Sociology of a Text: Oral Culture, Literacy, and Print in Early New Zealand.” In D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 77-128.

05. Elizabeth Eisenstein. “Defining the Initial Shift.” In Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 12-41.

06. Adrian Johns. “The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book.” In Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, pp. 1-57.

Part III. Texts, Authors, and Publishers

07. Roger Chartier. “Figures of the Author.” In Roger Chartier, The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992, pp. 25-59.

08. Roger Chartier. Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe. London: The British Library, 1999. Chapter 1.

09. Roger Chartier. Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe. London: The British Library, 1999. Chapter 2-3.

Part IV. Reading Practice

10. Roger Chartier. “The Bibliothèque bleue and Popular Reading.” In Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, pp. 240-264.

11. Robert Darnton. “First Steps toward a History of Reading.” In Robert Darnton, The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History, New York: W. W. Norton, 1990, pp. 154-187.

12. Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier. “Introduction.” In Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, eds., A History of Reading in the West, trans. Lydia G. Cochrane, Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, pp. 1-36.

13. William St Clair. “The Political Economy of Reading.” John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book. London: University of London, 2005. <http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/Publications/johncoffin/stclair.pdf>