Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature - An Archaeology of Absence

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the blank or empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally.

List of contents

• Introduction: An Archaeology of Absence


• Landscapes


• 1: Experiencing the Blank


• 2: Inky faces and an Empty World: Print, Race, and Cartography


• 3: Reading the early Modern Page


• 4: The Social Space of the Page


• 5: Vacant leaves and Waste Blanks


• Excavations


• 6: Reconstructing the Blank Archive


• 7: Missing Text


• 8: Poetry and Space in the Seventeenth Century


• 9: Censored Space


• 10: Unfinished...

About the author

Jonathan Sawday is a cultural and literary historian. He is currently the Walter J. Ong., SJ, Chair in the Humanities in the Department of English at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is the author and co-editor of five previous books, and many essays, articles, and reviews, chiefly on the literature and culture of the early modern period in the British Isles.

Summary

Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the blank or empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally.

Additional text

Jonathan Sawday's book is at once an essay on the complexity and vivacity of "the blank", and a paean to the ways in which early modern texts conveyed the idea of nothingness.

Product details

• Authors: Sawday , Jonathan Sawday, Jonathan (Walter J. Ong Sawday, Prof Jonathan (Walter J. Ong Sawday, Sawday Jonathan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2023
• EAN: 9780192845641
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284564-1
• No. of pages: 594
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Renaissance style, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Archaeological Theory