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Barber, Elizabeth Wayland. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth and Society in Early Times. New York: Norton, 1994.

Fulton, Thomas. Historical Milton: Manuscript, Print, and Political Culture in Revolutionary England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Pres, 2010.

Wark, McKenzie. The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International. London: Verso, 2011.

On History

Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Ferguson, Niall, ed. Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Lowy, Michael. Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'. Trans. by Chris Turner. New York: Verso, 2005.

Gender / Early Modern

Beilin, Elaine. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Burke, Victoria E. and Jonathan Gibson. Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing. Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.

Burke, Mary E., Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove, and Karen Nelson. Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.

Cahn, Susan. Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in England, 1500-1660. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.

Clarke, Danielle. The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing. Essex: Pearson Education Limited, 2001.

D'Monte, Rebecca and Nicole Pohl, eds. Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Frye, Susan. Pens and Needles: Women's Textualities in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Frye, Susan and Karen Robertson, eds. 'Maids and Mistresses, cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hannay, Margaret P. Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Burlington: Ashgate, 2010.

Hull, Suzanne W. Chaste, Silent & Obedient:English Books for Women 1475-1640. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1982.

Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Currency of Eros: Women's Love Lyric, 1540-1620. Bloomington: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Korda, Natasha. Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Lange, Ann Margaret. Writing the Way Out: Inheritance and Appropriation in Aemilia Lanyer, Isabella Whitney, Mary (Sidney) Herbert and Mary Wroth. New York: Peter Lang, 2011.

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

McGrath, Lynette. Subjectivity and Women's Poetry in Early Modern England. Burlington: Ashgate, 2002.

Moncrief, Kathryn M. and Kathryn R. McPherson, eds. Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.

Quilligan, Maureen. Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Schleiner, Louise. Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Smith, Helen. 'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summers, Claude J. and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. Representing Women in Renaissance England. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.

White, Micheline, ed. English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011.

When Gossips Meet (HQ1149.G7 C36)

Women and Writing c. 1340-c. 1650 (PR113 W658)

Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 (PR113 W66)

Women Writing 1550-1750 (PR113 W67)

Reading Early Modern Women's Writing (PR113 S32)

Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (PR113 S57)

Lost Property (PR274 W6 S86)

The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print (PR418 W65 R46)

Woodbridge, Linda. Women and the English Renaissance: Literature and the Nature of Womankind, 1540-1620. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Early Modern

Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanore Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992.

de Grazia, Margreta. Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

Dimmock, Matthew and Andrew Hadfield, eds. Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England. Burlington: Ashgate, 2009.

Fumerton, Patricia Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and Practice of Social Ornament. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Hunter, Michael, ed. Printed Images in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Interpretation. Burlington: Ashgate, 2010.

Johnson, Kimberly. Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.

Kalas, Rayna. Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.

King, John. Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in the Age of Religious Crisis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Kuchar, Gary. The Poetry of Religious Sorrow in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Lake, Peter with Michael Questier. The AntiChrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Marcus, Leah. Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and its Discontents. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Marotti, Arthur F. John Donne, Coterie Poet. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

Shell, Alison. ‘’Catholicism, Controversy, and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Targoff, Ramie. Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Wilcox, Helen. 1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

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.

Greg, W. W. "Bibliography -- An Apologia." The Library. 8.2 (September 1932): 113-143.

McKenzie, D. F. "Printers of the Mind." Making Meaning. Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

Editing and Textual Criticism

Berger, Thomas L. and Laurie E. Maguire, eds. Textual Formations and Reformations. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1998.

Bornstein, George and Ralph G. Williams, eds. Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Pres, 1993.

Egan, Gabriel, ed. Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics. Tempe, AR:ACMRS, 2010.

Eggert, Paul. Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Greetham, D. C. Theories of the Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Kastan, David Scott. Shakespeare and the Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

McLeod, Randall M., ed. Crisis in Editing: Texts of the English Renaissance. Papers given at the twenty-fourth annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 4-5 November 1988. New York: AMS Press, 1994.

Murphy, Andrew. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Literature and Artifacts. Charlottesville: The bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998.

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.

Bahr, Arthur. Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilatiosn of Medieval London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Baron, Sabrina Alcorn, Eric N. Lindquist, and Eleanor F. Shevlin. Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth Eisenstein. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

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.

Chartier, Roger. Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

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.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Ezell, Margaret J. M. Social Authorship and the Advent of Print. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Foot, Mirjam. The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society. London: The British Library, 1998.

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.

Green, James N. and Peter Stallybrass. Benjamin Franklin: Writer and Printer. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.

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.

King, John, ed. Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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

Mak, Bonnie. How the Page Matters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

Marotti, Arthur F. Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

McGill, Meredith L. American Literature and the culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

McKenzie, D. F. Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts. London: British Library, 1986.

McKitterick, David. Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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.

Piper, Andrew. Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

"The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modern England." Edited by Jennifer Richards and Fred Schurink. Huntington Library Quarterly 73.3 (September 2010).

Siskin, Clifford and William Warner (eds). This is Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Straznicky, Marta, ed. The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers and Readers in Early Modern England. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.

Watt, Tessa. Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Weekes, Ursula. Early Engravers and their Public: The Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publisher, 2004.

Yates, Frances. The Art of Memory. New York: Routledge, 1966.

Material Culture

Arthur, Liz. Embroidery 1600-1700 at the Burrell Collection. London: John Murray, 1995.

Blum, Dilys E. The Fine Art of Textiles: The Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997.

Brooke, Xanthe. The Lady Lever Art gallery: Catalogue of Embroideries. Wolfeboro Falls, NH: Alan Sutton Publishing, Inc, 1992.

Brooks, Mary M. English Embroideries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum. London: Jonathan Horne Publications, 2004.

Digby, George Wingfield. Elizabethan Embroidery. London: Faber and Faber, 1963.

Epstein, Kathleen. British Embroidery: Curious Works from the Seventeenth Century. Williamsburg: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1998.

Fleming, Juliet. Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.

Hamling, Tara and Catherine Richardson, eds. Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings. Burlington: Ashgate, 2010.

Harris, Jonathan Gil. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Jones, Ann Rosalind and Peter Stallybrass. Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Karr Schmidt, Suzanne. Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Levey, Santina M. An Eliabethan Inheritance: The Hardwick Hall Textiles. London: The National Trust, 1998.

Morrall, Andrew and Melinda Watt, eds. English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Smith, Bruce R. The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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.

Swain, Margaret. Embroidered Stuart Pictures. Haverfordwest: Shire Publications, Ltd., 1990.

Swain, Margaret. Figures on Fabric: Embroidery design sources and their application. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1980.

Wardle, Patricia. Guide to English Embroidery. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1970.

Digital Humanities, Media Studies, E-Lit

Berry, David, ed. Understanding Digital Humanities. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Programmed Visions: Software and Memory. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.

Flusser, Vilem. Post-History. Translated by Rodrigo Maltez Novaes. Minneapolis: Univocal, 2013.

Flusser, Vilem and Louis Bec. Vampyroteuthis Infernalis. Trans. by Valentine A. Pakis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

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.

Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Huhtamo, Erkki and Jussi Parikka, eds. Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. London: Calder & Boyars, 1974.

Jockers, Matthew. Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013.

Jones, Steven E. The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Krajewski, Markus. Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929. Trans. by Peter Krapp. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011.

McCarty, Willard, ed. Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions. Cambridge: OpenBook Publishers, 2010.

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).

Nelson, Brent and Melissa Terras, eds. Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture. Tempe: Iter, 2012.

Parikka, Jussi. "Operative Media Archaeology: Wolfgang Ernst's Materialist Media Diagrammatics." Theory, Culture, Society. 28.5 (September 2011): 52-74.

Parikka, Jussi and Tony D. Sampson, eds. The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009.

Raley, Rita. Tactical Media. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Schreibman, Susan and Ray Siemans. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

Underwood, Ted. Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey. "Kittler's Siren Recursions."

Marginalia, Used Books, Readers' Marks, Manuscript

Brayman Hackel, Heidi. Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Dobranski, Stephen B. Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England. 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.

Trevelyon, Thomas. The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608: A Facsimile of Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.232. Edited by Heather Wolfe. Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007.

Tribble, Evelyn B. Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2003.

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.

History / Philosophy of Science

Canguilhem, Georges. Knowledge of Life. Trans. by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg. Ed. by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Daston, Lorraine and Katherine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.

Harkness, Deborah E. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Schaffer, Simon and Steven Shapin. Leviathan and the Air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Philosophy

Agamben, Giorgio. What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays. Ed. Werner Hamacher. Trans. by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: Notes towards an Investigation." In Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Trans. by Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001 [1969]. 85-126.

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.

Glissant, Edouard. Poetics of Relation. Trans. by Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.

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)

Spenser, Shepheards Calendar (1579)

Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie (~1582-1592)

Daniel, Delia with the Complaint of Rosamund (1592)

Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)

Cary, Tragedy of Miriam (1613)

Cavendish, The Contract

Panofsky, Richard J., ed. The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Platt and A Sweet Nosgay (1573) and the Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney. Delmar, New York: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982.

Literature

Homer, Iliad

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Virgil, Aeneid

Marvell, Mower Poems

Interesting / Collected

Alpers, Svetlana. The Art of Describing.

Blair, Ann. The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science.

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.

Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923.

Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.

Software Studies, edited by Matthew Fuller

Hannam, James. God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science.

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.

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Phillippy, Patricia. Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture.

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.

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