Waste Paper in Early Modern England - Privy Tokens

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.

List of contents

• Introduction: Waste Matter


• 1: The Material History of Waste Paper


• 2: Pepper and Mackerel: The Waste Paper Trope


• 3: Butterflies and Binders' Shops: Reading Monastic Waste


• 4: Pickled Paper: Thomas Nashe's Poetics of Waste


• 5: Out of Date Almanacs and Middleton's 'Mouldy Stuff'


• Coda: Living with Waste

About the author

Anna Reynolds completed her PhD at the University of York in 2018. She has held lecturing positions at the University of York and the University of St Andrews, and is currently a University Teacher in Early Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has published articles and chapters in The Journal of the Northern Renaissance, The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English (2023), The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England (2023), Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2023), and co-edited The Paper Trade in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2021).

Summary

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.

Product details

• Authors: Reynolds, Anna Reynolds, Anna (University of Sheffield) Reynolds, Anna (University Teacher in Early Modern Reynolds
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2024
• EAN: 9780198882701
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888270-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599