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The History of the Book is an interdisciplinary realm of study that includes printing and publishing, materials and technologies of the book, the book trade, reading and readers, and collectors and collections, as well as library and information history.

The Seminar Series

Founders Memorial Library, Rare Books & Special Collections

Room 403

October Program

Beyond Walls, Beyond Bondage: Nineteenth Century Memoir

October 3, 2024 @ Noon-1:30 pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Light refreshments will be provided.

Kelly Ross (L); Owen Clayton (R).

Presenter: Kelly Ross, Associate Professor of English, Rider University
“Pinkerton, the Underground Railroad, and Civil War Spying”
Presenter: Dr. Owen Clayton, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Lincoln, UK
“‘Stone walls do not a prison make’: Identity in Nineteenth-Century Prison Writing”

November Program

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Exploring Text and Paratext

November 7, 2024 @ Noon-1:30pm

Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Room

Founders Memorial Library, Room 403

Brown Bag Lunch Welcome

David Gorman (L); Stephen Luis Vilaseca (R).

Presenter: David Gorman, Associate Professor of English, Northern Illinois University
“Paratext and Book Study: An Unexpected Encounter”
Presenter: Stephen Luis Vilaseca, Professor of Spanish, Northern Illinois University
“The City as Book and ‘The Selling of Place’ as Paratext in Spain”

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