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Book History, Bibliography, Material Culture

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.

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.

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.

Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1972.

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.

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

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

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.

Piper, Andrew. Dreaming in Books. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Stallybrass, Peter. "Material Culture: An Introduction." Shakespeare Studies 28 (2000): 123-9.

Philosophy

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

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.

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.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1994.

Heraclitus, Fragments

Kierkegaard, Søren (Constantin Constantius). Repetition. Trans. by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983 [1843].

Leibniz, Monadologie

To read

Davidson, Peter. The Universal Baroque. New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2007.

Merton, R. K. Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-Century England.

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.