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The Library and Material Texts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Peter Stallybrass
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For the last three years, roger chartier and i have taught an undergraduate seminar called the history of print Culture in Early Modern Europe and America. Although the content of the course has changed, one feature has been persistent: at least half our classes met in the rare-book libraries of Philadelphia. While we have often held the seminar in Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania, we have also gone to the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Free Library, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library. This would not have been possible without the extraordinary openness and generosity of the Philadelphia libraries and librarians. But the work of those librarians has not only provided an infrastructure for the course; it has also reshaped what we've worked on and how we teach it.

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Letters From Librarians
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PMLA , Volume 119 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 1347 - 1352
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2004

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