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[[NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty|NEH Summer Institute]]
Directed by Steven N. Zwicker, Professor of English at Washington University   


[[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive|Center for Shakespeare Studies]]
June 16 through July 25, 1997 


''June 16 through July 25, 1997''
This [[NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty|NEH Summer Institute]] made reading in all its facets the subject of intensive study and exploration. Working with the rich Folger collections and surveying the now substantial body of scholarship on the subject, the institute considered the full range of intellectual and affective transactions between readers and their books. Topics included:  the ways that the printing and distribution of books shaped texts, the relations between the practices of reading and the formation of collections and libraries, the inflection of politics by prim, and the aesthetic and intellectual consequences of censorship, regulation, clientage, and patronage.
Throughout the course of the institute, participating college instructors expanded their knowledge of the book as a physical object with a session in the Folger's conservation laboratory; developed their facility in reading the hands of annotations with a paleography practicum; examined search strategies for evidence of readers' responses to texts with an introduction to online resources; and attended supplement field trips to the National Gallery of Art with an introduction to the Gallery's archive of prints and library of slides. This institute made available strategies for college faculty to understand and, more importantly, to teach how texts spoke to the passions of early modern politics and spirituality. To that pedagogical end, participants collectively assembled a packet of illustrative materials to be reproduced for incorporation into their own coursework with students.


[[Media:1997NEHSI.pdf|Promotional Materials]]
Materials and Products
The syllabus is available here.


[https://web.archive.org/web/20141219103339/http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/habits.cfm Habits of Reading in Early Modern England] (Archived)
While the website is no longer supported, it has been archived: Institute Website: Habits of Reading in Early Modern England


[[Media:HabitsofReading1997Website.pdf|PDF of Website]]
A PDF of the website's pages with the participants' interpretive essays.


Directed by [[Steven N. Zwicker]], Professor of English at Washington University                                                                                                                                                
A PDF of the original promotional flyer.
The bibliography can be found here:  [[Bibliography for Habits of Reading in Early Modern England]]
Resulting publication: Anderson, Jennifer and Elizabeth Sauer, ed. ''Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=129625&_ga=2.118389001.1272375871.1497963940-335304767.1496674123 Z1003.5.G7 B69 2002]


'''The Institute'''


"Habits of Reading in Early Modern England" will make reading in all its facets the subject of intensive study and exploration. Working with the rich Folger collections and surveying the now substantial body of scholarship on (he subject, the institute will consider the full range of intellectual and affective transactions between readers and their books. We will address the ways that the printing and distribution of books shaped texts, the relations between the practices of reading and the formation of collections and libraries, the inflection of politics by prim, and the aesthetic and intellectual consequences of censorship, regulation, clientage, and patronage.We will, in other words, be concerned with all the ways we can trace Renaissance readers and their experience and, in turn, with the conclusions we might then draw about early modern authors and their embrace of those readers.


The relations between politics and reading will be a particular focus of this institute. The world of pamphlet culture and print warfare, of contest and animadversion, will be especially important to our study. Texts such as Marvell's ''Horatian Ode'', Milton's ''Paradise Lost'', and Dryden's ''Absolom and Achitophel'' will be read as factional, polemical, and fully engaged in the issues of their own political moments. By recreating those moments, the institute will cast the poems of early modern England as case studies for texts as political agents and for textual interpretation as a vital strategy for understanding culture and society.
[[Media:1997NEHSI.pdf|Promotional Materials]]


The handwritten annotations in the margins of the Folger's rare books will be used as vital evidence in our study of the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century men and women read and responded to texts. By historicizing the reader-- studying the contemporary representations and reimagining the social and physical sites and circumstances of reading-- we will work to recreate the acts of attention and arts of interpretation that define the world of the early modern reader.Taking advantage of the institute's own setting in a library that is itself an important case study in the archiving of the period, we will examine a wide range of primary materials. These will include Renaissance texts on aesthetic theory and hermeneutics. as well as the metatexts of Renaissance books: their printed prefaces, dedications, illustrations, tables, and indexes.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141219103339/http://www.folger.edu/html/folger_institute/habits.cfm Habits of Reading in Early Modern England] (Archived)


In the course of the institute, participants will expand their knowledge of the book as a physical object with a session in the Folger's conservation laboratory.They will develop their facility in reading the hands of annotations with a paleography practicum. They will examine search strategies for evidence of readers'responses to texts with an introduction to on-line resources. Finally, they will supplement field trips to the National Gallery of Art with an introduction to the Gallery's archive of prints and library of slides.
[[Media:HabitsofReading1997Website.pdf|PDF of Website]]
 
Throughout, the institute will make available strategies for college faculty to understand, and more importantly to teach, how texts spoke to the passions of early modern politics and spirituality. to class circumstance and to gender, to party allegiance and to political. ideology. To that pedagogical end. participants will collectively assemble a packet of illustrative materials to be reproduced for incorporation into their own coursework with students.
 
'''PARTICIPATING FACULTY'''
 
[[Habits of Reading in Early Modern England faculty]]
 
[[Peter W.M. Blayney]]
 
[[Margaret J.M. Ezell]]
 
Margaret W. Ferguson
 
[[Anthony Grafton]]
 
[[Richard Helgerson]]
 
[[Michael Mendle]]
 
[[Kevin Sharpe]]


[[William Sherman]]


[[Evelyn Tribble]]
'''Participants'''
(see also [[Habits of Reading in Early Modern England participants]])


[[Laetitia Yeandle]]
'''Faculty'''
(See also [[Habits of Reading in Early Modern England faculty]])


'''PARTICIPANTS'''


[[Habits of Reading in Early Modern England participants]]


'''BIBLIOGRAPHY'''
For more past programming from the [[Folger Institute]], please see the article [[Folger Institute scholarly programs archive]].


[[Bibliography for Habits of Reading in Early Modern England]]


'''RESULTING PUBLICATIONS'''
Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library. For more information about current summer seminars, please visit the National Endowment for the Humanities [http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs/ website].       


Anderson, Jennifer and Elizabeth Sauer, ed. ''Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies''. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=129625&_ga=2.118389001.1272375871.1497963940-335304767.1496674123 Z1003.5.G7 B69 2002]
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Revision as of 14:02, 1 August 2017

Directed by Steven N. Zwicker, Professor of English at Washington University

June 16 through July 25, 1997

This NEH Summer Institute made reading in all its facets the subject of intensive study and exploration. Working with the rich Folger collections and surveying the now substantial body of scholarship on the subject, the institute considered the full range of intellectual and affective transactions between readers and their books. Topics included: the ways that the printing and distribution of books shaped texts, the relations between the practices of reading and the formation of collections and libraries, the inflection of politics by prim, and the aesthetic and intellectual consequences of censorship, regulation, clientage, and patronage.

Throughout the course of the institute, participating college instructors expanded their knowledge of the book as a physical object with a session in the Folger's conservation laboratory; developed their facility in reading the hands of annotations with a paleography practicum; examined search strategies for evidence of readers' responses to texts with an introduction to online resources; and attended supplement field trips to the National Gallery of Art with an introduction to the Gallery's archive of prints and library of slides. This institute made available strategies for college faculty to understand and, more importantly, to teach how texts spoke to the passions of early modern politics and spirituality. To that pedagogical end, participants collectively assembled a packet of illustrative materials to be reproduced for incorporation into their own coursework with students.

Materials and Products The syllabus is available here.

While the website is no longer supported, it has been archived: Institute Website: Habits of Reading in Early Modern England

A PDF of the website's pages with the participants' interpretive essays.

A PDF of the original promotional flyer. The bibliography can be found here: Bibliography for Habits of Reading in Early Modern England Resulting publication: Anderson, Jennifer and Elizabeth Sauer, ed. Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Z1003.5.G7 B69 2002


Promotional Materials

Habits of Reading in Early Modern England (Archived)

PDF of Website


Participants (see also Habits of Reading in Early Modern England participants)

Faculty (See also Habits of Reading in Early Modern England faculty)


For more past programming from the Folger Institute, please see the article Folger Institute scholarly programs archive.


Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library. For more information about current summer seminars, please visit the National Endowment for the Humanities website.