H-120. Textual Mobilities: Works, Books & Reading Across Early Modern Europe - Advance Reading List

• Preliminary Advices

  The following are suggested and background readings which will give context to the course material. Extracts from many of these sources will be made available as part of the course workbook. Students are encouraged to examine these readings to the extent feasible prior to the course.

• Geographies: The "Printing Revolution"

  Febvre, Lucien and Henri-Jean Martin. L’Apparition du livre. Translated as The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1800. Paris: Michel, 1958. Reprinted, London: Verso, 1990; 2010.

  Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Second edition published by Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  “AHR Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Print Revolution?” American Historical Review 107:1 (February 2002): 84–128.

  Petrucci, Armando. “Pouvoir de l’écriture, pouvoir sur l’écriture dans la Renaissance italienne.” Annales: Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations 43:4 (1983): 823–847.

  Hindman, Sandra L., ed. Printing the Written Word: The Social History of Books, circa 1450–1520. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

  Leonard, Irving A. Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Reprinted, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

  Amory, Hugh and David D. Hall, eds. A History of the Book in America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Worcester & Cambridge: American Antiquarian Society & Cambridge University Press, 2000; reprinted in paper by University of North Carolina Press).

  Darnton, Robert. A Literary Tour de France: Publishing and the Book Trade in France and Francophone Europe, 1769–1789. Published 1 September 2014. http://www.robertdarnton.org.

  Burrows, Simon, et al. The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe. Mapping the Trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel. Published 2012. http://www.fbtee.uws.edu.au.

  Darnton, Robert. Review of The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe [web resource], by Simon Burrows, et al. Reviews in History (Review 1355, December 2012). http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1355.

• Cartographies: Maps in Books

  DeJean, Joan. Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

  Harley, J. B., and David Woodward, eds. The History of Cartography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987–. See especially Volume 3, Cartography in the European Renaissance. Volumes 1–3 are available online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html.

  Moretti, Franco. Atlante del romanzo europeo, 1800–1900. Torino: G. Einaudi, 1997. Translated as Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900. London: Verso, 1998.

  Los mapas del Quijote. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional, 2005. http://www.bne.es/es/Actividades/Exposiciones/Exposiciones/Exposiciones2005/mapasquijote/.

  Lestringant, Frank. Mapping the Renaissance World: The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

  Lestringant, Frank. Cannibals: The Discourses and Representations of the Cannibals from Columbus to Jules Verne. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

  Two collections of maps in facsimile:

  Hofmann, Catherine,Hélène Richard, and Emmanuelle Vagnon, eds. The Golden Age of Maritime Maps: When Europe Discovered the World. (Translation of L’Age d’or des cartes marines). New York: Firefly Books, 2013.

  Braun, Georg and Franz Hogenberg. Cities of the World: Complete Edition of the Colour Plates, 1572–1617. Köln: Taschen, 2008. Facsimile edition of Civitates orbis terrarum.

• Orality, Script, Print

  McKenzie, D. F. “Speech—Manuscript—Print.” In Making Meaning: ‘Printers of the Mind’ and Other Essays, 237–258. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

  McKenzie, D. F. “Orality, Literacy, and Print in Early New Zealand.” In Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, 77–130. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999,

  Goody, Jack. The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

  Fox, Adam. “Ballads, Libels, and Popular Ridicule in Jacobean England.” Past and Present 145 (1994): 47–83.

  Degh, Linda. Folktales and Society: Story-telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.

• Across Genres

  Patterson, Annabel. Reading Holinshed’s Chronicles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

  Chartier, Roger Chartier. Cardenio entre Cervantès et Shakespeare: histoire d’une pièce perdue. Paris: Gallimard, 2011. Translated by Janet Lloyd as Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare: The Story of a Lost Play. Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 2012.

  Blair, Ann Blair. “Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy: The Commonplace Book.” Journal of the History of Ideas 53:4 (1992): 541–551.

  Blair, An., “Reading Strategies for Coping with Overload Information ca. 1550–1700,” Journal of the History of Ideas 64:1 (2003): 11–28.

  Knight, Jeffrey Todd. Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

  Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• Translation

  Chartier, Roger. “Translation.” In The Author’s Hand and the Printer’s Mind: Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe, 98–120. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014.

  Burke, Peter. The Fortunes of the Courtier: The European Reception of Castiglione’s Cortegiano. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.