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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature

An Archaeology of Absence

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Produktbeschreibung

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the blank or empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 163mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845641
• ISBN-10: 0192845640
• Artikelnr.: 68049099

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Sawday is a cultural and literary historian. He is currently the Walter J. Ong., SJ, Chair in the Humanities in the Department of English at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is the author and co-editor of five previous books, and many essays, articles, and reviews, chiefly on the literature and culture of the early modern period in the British Isles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: An Archaeology of Absence
Landscapes
1: Experiencing the Blank
2: Inky faces and an Empty World: Print, Race, and Cartography
3: Reading the early Modern Page
4: The Social Space of the Page
5: Vacant leaves and Waste Blanks
Excavations
6: Reconstructing the Blank Archive
7: Missing Text
8: Poetry and Space in the Seventeenth Century
9: Censored Space
10: Unfinished...