Material Texts in Early Modern England

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What was a book in early modern England? By combining book history, bibliography and literary criticism, Material Texts in Early Modern England explores how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books were stranger, richer things than scholars have imagined. Adam Smyth examines important aspects of bibliographical culture which have been under-examined by critics: the cutting up of books as a form of careful reading; book destruction and its relation to canon formation; the prevalence of printed errors and the literary richness of mistakes; and the recycling of older texts in the bodies of new books, as printed waste. How did authors, including Herbert, Jonson, Milton, Nashe and Cavendish, respond to this sense of the book as patched, transient, flawed, and palimpsestic? Material Texts in Early Modern England recovers these traits and practices, and so crucially revises our sense of what a book was, and what a book might be.


  • | Author: Adam Smyth
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: April 01, 2021
  • | Number of Pages: 222 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1108431771
  • | ISBN-13: 9781108431774
Author:
Adam Smyth
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
April 01, 2021
Number of pages:
222 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1108431771
ISBN-13:
9781108431774