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"In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It charts a new history of making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped and altered the books of this crucial period, as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of sources, including court records, letters, diaries, medical texts, and the books themselves, 'Grossly Material Things' moves between the realms of manuscript and print, and tells the stories of literary, political, and religious texts from broadside ballads to plays, monstrous birth pamphlets to editions of the Bible. In uncovering the neglected history of women's textual labours, and the places and spaces in which women went about the business of making, Helen Smith offers a new perspective on the history of books and reading. Where Woolf believed that Shakespeare's sister, had she existed, would have had no opportunity to pursue a literary career, 'Grossly Material Things' paints a compelling picture of Judith Shakespeare's varied job prospects, and promises to reshape our understanding of gendered authorship in the English Renaissance"-- "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"--
Book history --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Authorship --- Women in the book industries and trade --- Women --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Book industries and trade --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Collaboration&delete& --- History --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Books and reading&delete& --- Collaboration --- Women authors --- Books and reading
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In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.
Literature --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 001.81 --- 82.08 --- 82:659.3 --- 659.3 --- Techniek van de intellectuele arbeid --- Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- Mass communication. Informing, enlightening of the public at large --- 659.3 Mass communication. Informing, enlightening of the public at large --- 82:659.3 Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- 82.08 Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- 001.81 Techniek van de intellectuele arbeid --- European literature --- Paratext --- Books --- History and criticism --- Paratext. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities
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