Reading for January 10: Robert Darnton, “Peasants Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose,” in The Great Cat Massacre (Google book or library e-book 9-29).

Reading for January 17: Elizabeth Eisenstein, “Defining the Initial Shift” (Reader 233-254)

Reading for January 24: David J. Shaw, “The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century” (Companion 220-231)

Reading for January 31: John Feather, “The British Book Market 1600-1800” (Companion 232-246)

Readings for February 7: Roland Barthes, “The death of the author” & Michel Foucault, “What is an author?” (Reader 277-280 & 281-291)

Reading for February 14: Wayne A. Wiegand, “Libraries and the Invention of Information” (Companion 531-543)

No Reading for February 21 (Reading Week)

Reading for February 28: Stephen Colclough, “Readers: Books and Biography” (Companion 50-62)

Readings for March 7: Megan L. Benton “The Book as Art” (BH Companion 493-507)

Reading for March 14: Deana Heath, “Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity” (Companion 508-519)

Readings for March 21: John Brewer, “Authors, Publishers and the Making of Literary Culture” (Reader, 318-326)