Group I Special Topics I (Fall 2025)
ENGL 436: A Material History of Book & Print Culture
This seminar traces a history of the book and print in Britain. Seminar modules are structured around key shifts in print format, means of production, and notions of authorship and readership. One of our weekly meetings will take place in W.D. Jordan Library’s Special Collections, where we will work hands-on with rare books and other materials. Readings will concern literacy, manuscript culture, the codex, the Stationers’ Company, libraries and other reading publics, presses, moveable type, censorship, archives, and the book trade’s cultural impacts. Multiple small projects and response papers will form the basis of evaluation.
This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
³ÉÈË´óƬ Repeatable Courses
With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once.
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