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Apr 19, 2024
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ENG 3490 - History of Books and Printing
Introduction to history of the book and its place in development of Western culture from ancient world to present. Approach is primarily historical, cultural, and aesthetic.
Requisites: ENG 2010 or 2020 or 250 or 2 courses above ENG 200 or (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Analyze the role of print culture in the construction of modern society.
- Differentiate between scrolls and manuscript codices as ancestors of the modern book.
- Discuss scribal transmission of texts and textual scholarship.
- Explore manuscript illumination and its social and cultural role.
- Understand the nature of electronic publishing in transforming reading habits.
- Understand the relation between manuscript culture and social institutions.
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