Summer is nearly here and I’m counting down just four months until I officially start my MSt program in October. It’s been 31 years since I graduated from college with a BA Music, but reading from a wide variety of genres has always appealed to me. I was excited to receive a list of suggested reading and ready to get started right away.
The list sent to us has a caveat: read what interests you or what you feel you need to know, but don’t try to tackle the entire thing before the term begins. I find book restraint a challenge, but then there are only so many days ahead of me. I needed to be selective. What you see in the photo are the books I’ve chosen, with The Blazing World being the exception—it wasn’t on the list. It’s a brand-new publication, covering England’s revolutionary era from 1603-1689.
The books
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Edward Craig
Architecture: A Very Short Introduction, Andrew Ballantyne
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction, Paul Langford
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction, Christopher Harvie and H.C.G. Matthew
Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Penguin Reference Library
The Art of Art History, Donald Preziosi
The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, Carl Mitcham
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, John Darwin
Have you read any of the books I’m reading? Would you like to join me and discuss any of them? Let me know and we can read together!
