English 249S Texts


(all available at the UConn Co-Op)

Required Texts:

  • Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Fawcett, 1994)
  • David B. Whittle, Cyberspace: The Human Dimension (Freeman, 1997)
  • Valerie Quercia, Internet in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (O'Reilley, 1997)

    Optional Texts: (one will be assigned to each student for a particular project):

  • William Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace, 1984)
  • Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (Harcourt Brace)

    Reserve Items (all of the above are on reserve in Homer Babbidge--except Quercia, which the library does not own), as are the following):


  • George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0
  • Richard Lanham, The Electronic Word
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation and Gelman, Protecting Yourself Online
  • James P. O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word
  • David Noble, The Religion of Technology
  • Ed Krol, The Whole Internet

    All items are on a 3 Hour/No Exit loan period.