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Professor Priya Joshi
English 975, Schedule of Readings
Fall 2005
*Titles marked with an asterisk are available for purchase from the bookstore at the SAC.

8/30: Welcome & Introductions


9/6: First Steps

• Robert Darnton. "What is the History of Books?" in The Kiss of Lamourette. Reflections in Cultural History. New York: Norton, 1990. pp. 107-135.
• Darnton. "First Steps toward the History of Reading" in The Kiss of Lamourette, pp. 154-190.
• Michel de Certeau. "Reading as Poaching." The Practice of Everyday Life, v. 1. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984. pp. 165-176.
• Roland Barthes. "The Death of the Author" from The Book History Reader. Eds. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. London: Routledge, 2002. pp. 221-224.
• *Roger Chartier. "Communities of Readers." The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994.*Lucien Febvre & Henri Jean Martin. "The Book as a Force of Change." The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. Trans. David Gerard. London: Verso, 1976.
  
  9/13 Institutions of Reading
  
• *Richard Altick. "The Mechanics Institutes" and "The Public Libraries." The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. 2nd ed. Columbus: Ohio SUP, 1998.
• Paul Kaufmann on circulating libraries (sel. TBA)
• *Priya Joshi. "The Circulation of Fiction in Indian Libraries, 1835-1901." In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. New York: Columbia UP, 2002.
  
  9/20 Reading Matter: The Novel
  
• Q.D. Leavis. sel. from Fiction & the Reading Public. 2nd ed. London: Bellew Publishing, 1990.
• Franco Moretti. "Narrative Markets, ca. 1850." The Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900. New York: Verso, 1998. pp. 141-198.
• *Cathy Davidson. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
• *Wendy Griswold. Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
  
  9/27: Reading Matter continued
  
  
  10/4: Woman Reader
  
• *Kate Flint. The Woman Reader, 1837-1914. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1993.
• Susan Bernstein. "Dirty Reading: Sensation Fiction, Women, and Primitivism" in Criticism. XXXVI:2 (Spring 1994) 213-241.
• *Janice Radway. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 1984.
• Jane Tompkins. "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History" in Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticisms. Eds. Robyn Warhol and Diane P. Herndl. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991. pp. 20-39.
• Tania Modleski. "My Life as a Romance Reader" in Para*doxa. 3:1-2 (1997) 15-28.
  
  10/11: Woman Reader continued
  
  
  10/18: "Working-class" Reader
  
• *Michael Denning. Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America. New York: Verso, 1987.
• *Jonathan Rose. sel. from The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.
• Martyn Lyons. "New Readers in the Nineteenth Century: Women, Children, Workers" in Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, A History of Reading in the West. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Amherst: U Mass P, 1999. pp. 313-344.
• *Carlo Ginzburg. The Cheese & the Worms. The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller. Trans. John and Anne Tedeschi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.
  
  
  10/25: "Working-class" Reader continued
  
  11/1: Case Histories
  
• Umberto Eco. "Rhetoric and Ideology in Sue's Les Mystères de Paris." The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979. pp. 125-143.
• Michael Denning. "Licensed to Look: James Bond and the Heroism of Consumption" in Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism. Ed. Francis Mulhern. London: Longman, 1992. pp. 211-229.
• *Antonio Gramsci. "Popular Fiction" in Selections from Cultural Writings. Eds. David Forgacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Trans. William Boellhower. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985. various essays.
• *Elizabeth McHenry. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African-American Literary Societies. Durham: Duke UP, 2002.
• Priya Joshi, "Readers Write Back." In Another Country
• Jane Tompkins. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
• Wendy Griswold. Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria
  
  
  11/8: Case Histories Continued
  
  
  11/15: Future of Reading
  
• Armando Petrucci. "Reading to Read: A Future for Reading" in Cavallo and Chartier, A History of Reading in the West, pp. 345-367.
  
  11/22 Research
  
  11/29 Research
  
  12/6: Papers due