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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a rich, imaginative and also accessible guide to the latest research in one of the most exciting areas of early modern studies.
List of contents
- 1: Adam Smyth: An Introduction: Thinking about the history of the book
- 2: Claire M.L. Bourne: The Handmaids' Tale: Book History, Shakespeare, and Women's Textual Labour
- 3: Megan Heffernan: Cataloguing the Past: Periodisation and the Historiography of Print
- 4: Jeffrey Todd Knight: The Scale of Book History: Data, Distance, Description
- 5: Brandi K. Adams: 'Inlaid with inkie spots of jet': Early modern book history and premodern critical race studies
- 6: Brian Cummings: Religion and the history of the book
- 7: Alexandra Franklin and Richard Lawrence: Printing and book history: Insights from practice
- 8: Jason Scott-Warren: Monuments and trifles: which books do we use to tell the history of the book?
- 9: Paul Nash: What was a print shop, and what happened there?
- 10: Tamara Atkin: Scribes, Compositors, Correctors
- 11: Stephen B. Dobranski: Authors
- 12: Kirk Melnikoff: Publishing Virginia (1608-15): Specialization, Commissioning, Networks
- 13: Rachel Stenner: Regional book and print trades
- 14: Katherine Hunt: Representing the labour of printing in image and text
- 15: Jason Peacey: Printing and the Universities
- 16: Michael Hunter: Illustrated books
- 17: James Misson: Typography
- 18: Harriet Philips: Beyond the book: non-codex texts
- 19: Adrian Johns: Science and the book in early modern England
- 20: Anna Reynolds: Waste, offcuts, remains, reuse
- 21: Ben Higgins: 'The Book-sellars Shop': Browsing, Reading, and Buying in Early Modern England
- 22: Hanna de Lange and Andrew Pettegree: Internationalism and the English book trade
- 23: Tara L. Lyons: 'A Gifte of good Moment': A New History of the Stationers' Benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616
- 24: A.E.B. Coldiron: Multi-lingual print
- 25: Michelle O'Callaghan: Contexts for Circulation: Households, University, Inns of Court, and Professional Circles
- 26: H.R. Woudhuysen: From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman: Buying and Selling Old Books in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- 27: Sujata Iyengar: Conversations about Time and Space: Early Modern Books and Contemporary Artists' Books
- 28: Jeff Dolven: The Early Modern Book as Metaphor
- 29: Caroline Duroselle-Melish: Past, Present, and Future: Early Modern Collections and the Work of a Curator
- 30: Emma Smith: Self-reading books: marginalia, prosopopoeia and book history
- 31: Georgina Wilson: Book modification
- 32: Bruce R. Smith: Early Modern Books and Phonography
- 33: Alexandra Hill: Transience and loss
About the author
Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford. He works on the connections between literature and material texts, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries. He is the author of four books, including Material Texts in Early Modern England (2019), and the editor and co-editor of four collections of essays (including Book Parts (2019) with Dennis Duncan). He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a rich, imaginative and also accessible guide to the latest research in one of the most exciting areas of early modern studies.
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...an outstanding selection of thirty-seven essays... a mix of major thematic pieces and some carefully-considered case studies that reflect on broader subjects. The four parts of the Handbook (Approaching the History of the Book; Making Books; Moving Books; Using Books) work superbly well ...the originality of this volume and its curation means that it will appeal as much to experts as to those learning about English book culture for the first time. ...a treasure trove of scholarship that can be returned to successively for new and inspirational insights.
