February 10, 2025
Core
- Bonnie Mak, “Architectures of the Page” from How the Page Matters (2012), resource via library
- Lisa Gitelman, “Near Print and Beyond Paper: Knowing by *.pdf” from Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents (2014), file on Canvas
- Martin Paul Eve, “New Leaves: Riffling the History of Digital Pagination” (2022), external website
Penumbra
- Herman Melville, “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” (1855), external website
- Sarah Werner, “Paper” from Studying Early Printed Books, 1450-1800 : A Practical Guide (2019), library resource
- Jonathan Senchyne, “Introduction” and “Conclusion: Reading Into Surfaces” from The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2019), resource via library
- Andrew Piper, Chad Wellmon, and Mohamed Cheriet, “The Page Image: Towards a Visual History of Digital Documents” (2020), resource via library
- Mia Sato, “The Perfect Web Page” (2024), external website
Book Lab: That Old Time Rag
For today’s lab, we will split the class between a guided and self-guided activity. The directions for the self-guided activity can be found here.