Helen Smith

'Grossly Material Things'

Women and Book Production in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780199651580
• ISBN-10: 0199651582
• Artikelnr.: 47869038

Autorenporträt

Helen Smith is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. She has published widely on the history of books and reading, and is co-editor (with Louise Wilson) of Renaissance Paratexts (Cambridge, 2011). She is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, 'Conversion Narratives in Early Modern Europe'.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of abbreviations
* List of illustrations
* Acknowledgments
* Note to the reader
* Introduction: 'Grossly Material Things'
* 1: 'Pen'd with double art': Women at the Scene of Writing
* 2: 'A dame, an owner, a defendresse': Women, Patronage, and Print
* 3: 'A free Stationers wife of this companye': Women and the
Stationers
* 4: 'Certaine women brokers and peddlers': Beyond the London Book
Trades
* 5: 'No deformitie can abide before the sunne': Imagining Early Modern
Women's Reading
* Bibliography of Works Cited
* Index