ECS 763
Studying The Book Before 1800
Winter 2025-26
Topics
- Book history
- Primary sources
- Archives
- Textual scholarship
- Printing and bookbinding
Readings
- The Broadview Reader in Book HistoryISBN 9781554810888
- An Introduction to Book History
- The Book History Reader
- Prescott, Andrew, 'Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive', in Andrew Prescott, and Alison Wiggins (eds), Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction (2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Dec. 2023), accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
- McCracken, Krista. "Challenging Colonial Spaces: Reconciliation and Decolonizing Work in Canadian Archives." The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 100 no. 2, 2019, p. 182-201. Project MUSE, Ghaddar, J.J. "The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory." Archivaria, vol. 82, 2016, p. 3-26. Project MUSE,
- Boel, Jens. "Chapter 5. The Universal Dimension of Diasporic Literary Archives". The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk, edited by David C. Sutton, Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press, 2018, pp. 59-64.
- Toews, Jennifer. "Chapter 4. Migration, Freedom of Expression, and the Importance of Diasporic Literary Archives". The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Dispersed Collections at Risk, edited by David C. Sutton, Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press, 2018, pp. 49-56.
- Manning, Henry Edward. The divine glory of the Sacred Heart: by Henry Edward. Burns and Oates, 1873. Nineteenth Century Collections Online, link.gale.com/apps/doc/QBGNLV906945293/NCCO?u=ocul_mcmaster&sid=bookmark-NCCO&xid=b7f733ea&pg=1. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
- Vetromile, Eugene, 1819-1881. “Kdamibanganak. Rosary,” Indian Good Book. 2d ed. New York: E. Dunigan & Brother (J.B. Kirker), 1857. pp 86-93, Litany, p 94-98. Hathi Trust.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store reading list ↗Winter 2026
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2025-26