Joshua Calhoun

The Nature of the Page

Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the poetic interplay between human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which they are mediated, The Nature of the Page tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and prompts readers to reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old books to new smartphones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 188mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251890
• ISBN-10: 081225189X
• Artikelnr.: 56753942

Autorenporträt

Joshua Calhoun

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Beginnings
Introduction. Toward an Ecology of Texts 1
Part I. Legible Ecologies
Chapter 1. Substances Used to Convey Ideas: Ship Sails, Cellulose, and
Spinning Wheels
Chapter 2. The Word Made Flax: Cheap Bibles, Textual Corruption, and the
Poetics of Paper
Part II. Indistinct Ecologies
Chapter 3. How to Read a Blot: Historiography and Renaissance Ecologies of
Inscriptive Error
Chapter 4. Sizing Matters: Annotating Animals in Renaissance England
Chapter 5. This Book, as Long Lived as the Elements: Climate Control,
Biodeterioration, and the Poetics of Decay
Remainders. Reading and Seeing Textual Ecology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments