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Author : Lucy Razzall
Release : 2021-08-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 338/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Boxes and Books in Early Modern England by : Lucy Razzall
Download or read book Boxes and Books in Early Modern England written by Lucy Razzall. This book was released on 2021-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.
Author : Lucy Razzall
Release : 2021-08-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Boxes and Books in Early Modern England by : Lucy Razzall
Download or read book Boxes and Books in Early Modern England written by Lucy Razzall. This book was released on 2021-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negotiations of the book itself as text and material object. Engaging with recent work on material culture and the history of the book, Lucy Razzall weaves together close readings of texts and objects, from wills, plays, sermons and religious polemic, to chests, book-bindings, reliquaries and coffins. She demonstrates how the material and imaginative possibilities of the box were dynamically connected in post-Reformation England, structuring modes of thought. These early modern responses to materiality offer ways in which the discipline of book history might reframe its analysis of the material text. In tracing the early modern significance of the box as matter and metaphor, this book reveals the origins of some of the enduring habits of thought with which we still respond to people, texts and things.
Author : Adam Smyth
Release : 2023-10-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 231/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England by : Adam Smyth
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England written by Adam Smyth. This book was released on 2023-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--
Author : Anna Reynolds
Release : 2024-03-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 70X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Waste Paper in Early Modern England by : Anna Reynolds
Download or read book Waste Paper in Early Modern England written by Anna Reynolds. This book was released on 2024-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.
Author : Hao Tianhu
Release : 2023-12-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond by : Hao Tianhu
Download or read book Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond written by Hao Tianhu. This book was released on 2023-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden, a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections, which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism, composition, reading practice, and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters, which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing, early modern English reading practice, and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China, comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu, exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing, and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature, manuscript study, commonplace books, history of the book, and intercultural study.
