The Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book

copy about the lecture series

Patricia Crain, "Spectral Literacy: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes" October 2003

  • David Levy, "Head, Hand and Heart: What the Arts and Crafts Movement can Teach us about Living in the Age of Acceleration and Overload" March 2010
  • Paul F Gehl, "Writing the History of the Book on Line" April 2009
  • Joan Shelly Rubin, "Poetry in Place and Practice: American Readers and the Uses of Verse" November 2007
  • Margaret Ezell, "Performance Texts: Publishing Prophets in the Interregnum" October 2006
  • Ezra Greenspan, "Walt Whitman and U.S. Print Culture: The Medium and the Man" November 2005
  • Susan Howe, "Remember We Are Traveling as Relations" October 2004
  • Nicholas A. Basbanes, "Among the Gently Mad" October 2002
  • John Bidwell, "Immigrant Papermakers in Colonial America" November 2001
  • Adrian Johns, "The Birth of Scientific Reading" March 2001
  • Robert Darnton, "News and the Media in 18th-century Paris" October 1999
  • Ellen Gruber Garvey, "Poacher's Gleaners and a Cow called Books: Scrapbooks and 19th century Reading" October 1998
  • Robert Bringhurst, "The Grain of language and the Music of the Page" November 1997
  • Christopher deHamel, "Reconstructing the Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier" November 1996
  • Jonathan Rose, "How a Historian Teaches the History of the Book" October 1995
  • Terry Belanger, "The Rare Book School: The Book Arts Press and Its Cottage Industries" September 1994
  • Ed Colker, "The Persistence of Illumination: Writers & Atisits in Collaboraton and Response, 1892-1993" April 1993