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Notes
- Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.
- Schaffer, Simon and Steven Shapin. Leviathan and the Air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Bibliography
- Belanger, Terry. "Descriptive Bibliography." Book Collecting: A Modern Guide. Ed. Jean Peters. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1977. 97-115.
- Bowers, Fredson. Principles of Bibliographical Description. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.
- Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1972.
- McKenzie, D. F. "Printers of the Mind." Making Meaning. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
Book History
- Adams, Thomas R. and Nicolas Barker. "A New Model for the Study of the Book." A Potencie of Life: Books in Society. Ed. Nicolas Barker. London: British Library, 1993. 5-43.
- Anderson, Jennifer and Elizabeth Sauer, ed. Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
- Bender, John and Michael Marrinan. The Culture of Diagram. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Bourdieu, Pierre. "The Field of Cultural Production." Book History Reader. Eds. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. New York: Routledge, 2002. 77-99.
- Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
- Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Trans. by Lydia G. Cochrane. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
- Darnton, Robert. "What is the History of Books?" Book History Reader. Eds. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. New York: Routledge, 2002. 9-26.
- Davidson, Cathy. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Expanded ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Genette, Gerard. Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation. Trans. by Jane E. Lewin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller. Trans. by John and Anne Tedeschi. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
- Grafton, Anthony T. "The Importance of Being Printed." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11.2 (Autumn 1980): 265-286.
- Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- Johnson, William A. "The Ancient Book." The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Ed. Roger S. Bagnell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Johnson, William A. and Hold N. Park, eds. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Kalas, Rayna. "The Language of Framing." Shakespeare Studies 2000 (28): 241-7.
- McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. London: British Library, 1986.
- Petroski, Henry. The Book on the Bookshelf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
- Piper, Andrew. Dreaming in Books. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Siskin, Clifford and William Warner (eds). This is Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Yates, Frances. The Art of Memory. New York: Routledge, 1966.
Material Culture
- Fleming, Juliet. Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.
- Levey, Santina M. An Eliabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles.
- Smith, Bruce R. The Key of Green: Passion and Perception in Renaissance Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Stallybrass, Peter. "Material Culture: An Introduction." Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000): 123-9.
Digital Humanities, Media Studies, E-Lit
- Galloway, Alexander R. and Eugene Thacker. The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2007.
- Harpold, Terry. Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
- Hayles, N. Katherine. Writing Machines.
- Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. London: Calder & Boyars, 1974.
- McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web. New York: Palgrave 2001.
- Nelson, Ted. Computer Lib / Dream Machines. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1987 (1974).
- Schreibman, Susan and Ray Siemans. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Marginalia, Used Books, Readers' Marks
- Brayman Hackel, Heidi. Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Evans, Robert C. Habits of Mind: Evidence and Effects of Ben Jonson's Reading. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1995.
- Gingerich, Owen. An Annotated Census of Copernicus' 'De Revolutionibus'.' Leiden: Brill, 2002.
- Jackson, Heather. Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
- Sherman, William H. John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.
- Sherman, William H. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
- Stern, Virginia F. Gabriel Harvey: A Study of His Life, Marginalia, and Library. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1979.
Orality, Literacy
- Ferguson, Margaret W. Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender and Empire in Early Modern England and France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Olson, David. The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Ong, Walter. "Orality and Literacy: Writing Restructures Consciousnes." Book History Reader. Eds. David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery. New York: Routledge, 2002. 105-117.
Copyright, Intellectual Property, Censorship
- Boyle, James. "The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain." Law & Contemporary Problems 66.33 (Spring 2003): 33-74.
- Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Loewenstein, Joseph. The Author's Due: Printing and the Prehistory of Copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- Milton, Areopagitica
- Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Philosophy
- Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
- Bacon, Novum Organum
- Badiou, Alain. Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
- Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
- Cavendish, Margaret. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. Ed. by Eileen O'Neill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Deleuze, Gilles. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. Trans. by Tom Conley. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
- Deleuze, Gilles. Logic of Sense. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1990.
- Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
- Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
- Deleuze, Gilles and Michel Foucault. "Intellectuals and Power."
- Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
- Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1994.
- Heraclitus, Fragments
- Hobbes, Leviathan
- Hobbes, Dialogus physicus
- Kierkegaard, Søren (Constantin Constantius). Repetition. Trans. by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983 [1843].
- Leibniz, Monadologie
- Lucretius, De rerum natura.
British Literature 1509-1688
- Lock, Meditation of a Penitant Sinner (1560)
- Daniel, Delia with the Complaint of Rosamund (1592)
- Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
- Cary, Tragedy of Miriam (1613)
- Cavendish, The Contract
Literature
- Homer, Iliad
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Virgil, Aeneid
- Marvell, Mower Poems
To read
- Alpers, Svetlana. The Art of Describing.
- Boyle, James. Shaman, Software and Spleens.
- Brooke, Collin Gifford. Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media. (Hampton Press, 2009)
- Social Life of Documents.
- Cohen, Adam Max. Technology and the Early Modern Self.
- Davidson, Peter. The Universal Baroque. New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2007.
- Software Studies, edited by Matthew Fuller
- Goldberg, Jonathan. The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and materiality in Renaissance Representations.
- Friedberg, Anne. The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microscoft.
- Jackson, Holbrook. The Anatomy of Bibliomania.
- Jager, Eric. The Book of the Heart.
- Jardine, Lisa. The Curious Life of Robert Hooke.
- Lovink, Geert. Dark Fiber.
- Merton, R. K. Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.
- The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation.
- Pettegree, Andrew. The Book in the Renaissance.
- Prefiguring Cyberculture.
- Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories.
- Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
- Stock, Brian. Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past.
- Urban, Greg. Metaculture.
- Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics.
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