The Book History Reader

General Introduction What is Book History 1. Section Introduction - Finklestein & McClerry 2. What is the History of Books - Darnton 3. The Book as an Expressive Form - McKenzie 4. A New Model for the Study of the Book - Adams & Barker 5. The Socialization of Texts - McGann 6. Labourers and Voyagers: From the Text to the Reader - McGann 7. The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book - Johns 8. The Filed of Cultural Production - Bourdieu From Orality to Literacy 1. Section Introduction - Finkelstein & McCleery 2. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World - Ong 3. The Practical Impact of Writing - Chartier 4. The Body of the Book: The Media Transition from Manuscript to Print - Muller 5. Defining the Initial Shift; some features of print culture - Eisenstein 6. The Indian ecumene; an indigenous public sphere - Bayly 7. The Sociology of a Text: Orality, Literacy and Print in Early New Zealand - Mckenzie Commodifying Print: Books and Authors 1. Section Introduction - Finkelstein & McCleery 2. The Death of the Author - Barthes 3. What is an Author - Foucault 4. Literary Property Determined - Rose 5. Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture - Brewer 6. Masterpiece Theatre: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation - Tompkins 7. The Victorian Novelists: Who Were They - Sutherland 8. The Magazine Market - West 9. Anyone of Everybody: Net Books and Howard's End - Feltes Book s and Readers 1. Section Introduction - Finkelstein & McCleery 2. Interaction between Reader and Text - Iser 3. Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England - Monaghan 4. Reading Practices - Flint 5. Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audience - Rose 6. The English Common Reader - Altick 7. Interpreting the Variorium - Fish 8. A Feeling for Books: The Book of the Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire Select Bibliography