LIT-131 The Experience of Reading: Books as Stories, Books as Objects

Consideration not only of stories in books but also the representations of readers and reading within them and about the cultural and physical experience of reading. How have attitudes toward reading changed over time? Works by Bunyan, Blake, Austen, Alcott, Stevenson, Haddon, Creech, and Bechdel. Workshops using Hamilton’s Rare Book and Book Arts collections and manual printing press.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Notes

(History and Intermedia) Open to first year students only.