Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History [Hardcover]

Offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. This work considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. These essays are of interest to university teachers incorporating textual studies and research methods into their courses.Offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. This work considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. These essays are of interest to university teachers incorporating textual studies and research methods into their courses.Introduction: Towards a Pedagogy of Bibliography, Ann R. Hawkins; Chapter 1 Exploring the Archaeology of the Book in the Liberal Arts Curriculum, Martin Antonetti; Chapter 2 Historical Bibliography for Rare-Book Librarians, Mirjam M. Foot; Chapter 3 A Clear and Lively Comprehension: the History and Influence of the Bibliographical Laboratory, Steven Escar Smith; Chapter 4 Bookends: Towards a Poetics of Material Form, Sydney J. Shep; Chapter 5 Book History on the Road: Finding and Organizing Resources outside the Classroom, Lisa Berglund; Chapter 6 Jane Eyre on eBay: Building a Teaching Collection, John A. Buchtel; Chapter 7 History of the Book in the American Literature Classroom: On the Fly and On the Cheap, Jean Lee Cole; Chapter 8 From Printing Type to Blackboard : Teaching the History of the Early Modern Book to Literary Undergraduates in a New UK University, Ian Gadd; Chapter 9 Preparing Library School Graduate Students for Rare Book and Special Collections Jobs: Assignments and Exercises That Work, Deirdre C. Stam; Chapter 10 Book History and Librarian Education in the Twenty-first Century, Erik Delfino; Chapter 11 Making the Medicine Go Down: Baggy Monsters and Book History, Sean C. Grass; Chapter 12 They are Not Just Big, Dusty Novels: Teaching Hard Times within the Contelã