Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading - Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others

This collection presents the seminal 1990 article 'Studied for Action' by Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton alongside published and unpublished studies on Harvey to provide a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual and cultural history. It offers a posthumous tribute to Lisa Jardine and an authoritative overview of the History of Reading.

About the author

Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University. Nicholas Popper is associate professor of history at William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, and editor of books at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. William H. Sherman is director of the Warburg Institute and professor of cultural history at the University of London's School of Advanced Study, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anthony Grafton (Editor), Nicholas Popper (Editor), William H. Sherman (Editor)
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2024
• EAN: 9781800081673
• ISBN: 978-1-80008-167-3
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 163 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 940 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies