Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-544) and index.

What is the history of books? / Robert Darnton -- Bibliography, pure bibliography, and literary studies / Fredson Bowers -- The book as an expressive form / D.F. McKenzie -- A new model for the study of the boo k / Thomas Adams and Nicolas Barker -- The socialization of texts / Jer ome McGann -- Early modern print culture : assessing the models / Harol d Love -- Labourers and voyagers : from the text to the reader / Pierre Bourdieu -- The field of cultural production / Pierre Bourdieu -- Text , script, and media : new observations on scribal activity in the ancie nt Near East / Scott B. Noegel -- Orality and literacy : writing restru ctures consciousness / Walter Ong -- The manuscript / Marcel Thomas -- The practical impact of writing / Roger Chartier -- The body of the boo k : the media transition from manuscript to print / Jan-Dirk Mller -- T he Indian ecumene : an indigenous public sphere / C.A. Bayly -- The soc iology of a text : orality, literacy, and print in early New Zealand / D. F. McKenzie -- Defining the initial shift : some features of print c ulture / Elisabeth Eisenstein -- The book of nature and the nature of t he book / Adrian Johns -- The death of the author / Roland Barthes -- W hat is an author? / Michel Foucault -- Oral religio-political activism and textual production / Paula McDowell -- Literary property determined / Mark Rose -- Authors, publishers, and the making of literary culture / John Brewer -- Cultures of the commonplace / Leah Price -- Masterpie ce theater : the politics of Hawthorne's literary reputation / Jane Tom pkins -- The Victorian novelists : who were they? / John Sutherland -- When is a book not a book? / Robert L. Patten -- The magazine market / James L.W. West III -- Toward international cooperation : the literary editing of H.D. and Bryher / Jayne Marek -- Interaction between text an d reader / Wolfgang Iser -- Literacy instruction and gender in colonial New England / F. Jennifer Monaghan -- Reading practices / Kate Flint - - Rereading the English common reader : a preface to a history of audie nces / Jonathan Rose -- The English common reader : from Caxton to the eighteenth century / Richard Altick -- Interpreting the variorum / Stan ley Fish -- Forgotten readers : recovering the lost history of African American literary societies / Elizabeth McHenry -- A feeling for books : the Book-of-the-Month Club, literary taste, and middle-class desire / Janice Radway -- The digital subject and cultural theory / Mark Poster -- Material matters : the past and futurology of the book / Paul Dugui d -- Farewell to the information age / Geoffrey Nunberg.