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Professor Priya Joshi
English 975, Reading
Fall 2005

*The following titles, marked with an asterisk on the syllabus, are available for purchase from the bookstore at the Student Activity Center or on reserve at Paley Library. Additional critical readings are available from the course page on Blackboard.

Richard Altick.   The English Common Reader:  A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900.  2nd ed.  Columbus: Ohio SUP, 1998.

Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier.  A History of Reading in the West.  Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane.  Amherst:  U Mass P, 1999.

Roger Chartier.  The Order of Books:  Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries.  Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane.  Stanford:  Stanford UP, 1994.

Cathy Davidson.  Revolution and the Word:  The Rise of the Novel in America.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1986.

 Michael Denning.  Mechanic Accents:  Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America.  New York:  Verso, 1987.

Umberto Eco.  The Role of the Reader:  Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts.  Bloomington:  Indiana UP, 1979.

Lucien Febvre & Henri Jean Martin.  The Coming of the Book:  The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. Trans. David Gerard.  London:  Verso, 1976. 

Kate Flint.  The Woman Reader, 1837-1914.  Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1993.

Carlo Ginzburg.  The Cheese & the Worms.  The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller.  Trans. John and Anne Tedeschi.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.

Antonio Gramsci. "Popular Fiction" in Selections from Cultural Writings.  Eds.  David Forgacs and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.  Trans. William Boellhower.  Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1985.

Wendy Griswold.  Bearing Witness:  Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria.  Princeton:  Princeton UP, 2000.

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.

Q.D. Leavis. Fiction & the Reading Public.  2nd ed.  London:  Bellew Publishing, 1990.

Elizabeth McHenry. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African-American Literary Societies.  Durham:  Duke UP, 2002.

Franco Moretti.  The Atlas of the European Novel, 1800-1900.  New York:  Verso, 1998.

Janice Radway.  Reading the Romance:  Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature.  Chapel Hill:  U North Carolina P, 1984.

Jonathan Rose.  The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.  New Haven:  Yale UP, 2001.

Jane Tompkins. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1985.