Adam Smyth

Broschiertes Buch

Material Texts in Early Modern England

Beschreibung

What was a book in early modern England? Material Texts in Early Modern England focuses on neglected bibliographical cultures, including cutting, destruction, recycling, and errors. It explores how authors including Herbert, Milton, and Cavendish responded to this rich bibliographical context.

Autor

Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at the University of Oxford. He is the author of, among other things, Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010); Profit and Delight: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-82 (2004); the editor of A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge, 2016); and the co-editor, with Gill Partington, of Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (2014). He has published widely on the literary and bibliographical cultures of early modern England. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9781108431774
• ISBN-10: 1108431771
• Artikelnr.: 60798362