Book History and Material Culture
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN506
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
Primary texts
Unless otherwise indicated, please use the editions listed.
- Richardson, Samuel, Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded, Oxford University Press, 2008Compulsory
- Austen, Jane; Justice, George., Emma: an authoritative text, contexts, criticism, 4th ed., New York, W.W. Norton, c2012Compulsory
- Blake, William, Songs of innocence and Songs of experience, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]Compulsory (Online facsimile edition at the British Library: https:/
/ www.bl.uk/ collection-items/ william-blakes-songs-of-innocence-and-experience www.blakearchive.org) - Mofolo, Thomas; Ashton, H.; Gray, Stephen, Traveller to the East, [Modern classics ed.], London, Penguin, 2007Compulsory
- Plaatje, Sol T., Mhudi, [New ed.], London, Heinemann, 1978Compulsory
Digital and photocopied material.
Secondary Reading
- Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair, The book history reader, 2. ed., London, Routledge, 2006Compulsory (Selections.)
- Levy, Michelle; Mole, Tom, The Broadview reader in book history, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2015Compulsory (Selections.)
- Genette, Gérard, Introduction to the Paratext, Part of: New literary history, vol. 22, no. 2, 1991, p. 261–272, https:/
/ Compulsorywww.jstor.org/ stable/ 469037?seq=1
A list of optional supplementary reading will be provided.
* Compulsory