The Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England /
"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. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Ways of approaching the history of the book. An introduction : thinking about the history of the book Adam Smyth
- The Handmaids' Tale : book history, Shakespeare, and women's textual labour Claire M. L. Bourne
- Cataloguing the past : periodisation and the historiography of print Megan Heffernan
- The scale of book history : data, distance, description Jeffrey Todd Knight
- 'Inlaid with inkie spots of jet' : early modern book history and premodern critical race studies Brandi K. Adams
- Religion and the history of the book Brian Cummings
- Printing and book history : insights from practice Alexandra Franklin and Richard Lawrence
- Monuments and trifles : which books do we use to tell the history of the book? Jason Scott-Warren
- Part II. Making books. What was a printing shop, and what happened there? Paul W. Nash
- Scribes, Compositors, Correctors Tamara Atkin
- Authors Stephen B. Dobranski
- Publishing Virginia (1608-15) : specialization, commissioning, networks Kirk Melnikoff
- Regional book and print trades Rachel Stenner
- Representing the labour of printing in image and text Katherine Hunt
- Printing and the universities Jason Peacey
- Illustrated books Michael Hunter
- Typography James Misson
- Beyond the book : non-codex texts Harriet Phillips
- Science and the book in early modern England
- Adrian Johns
- Waste, offcuts, remains, reuse : or, what is the history of books in pieces? Anna Reynolds
- Part III. Moving books : selling, circulating, borrowing, imagining. 'The book-sellars shop' : Browsing, Reading, and Buying in early modern England Ben Higgins
- Internationalism and the English book trade Hanna de Lange and Andrew Pettegree
- 'A gifte of good moment' : a new history of the stationers' benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616 Tara L. Lyons
- Translingual and multi-lingual print A. E. B. Coldiron
- Contexts for Circulation : universities, inns of court, households, and professional circles Michelle O'Callaghan
- From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman : buying and selling old books in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries H. R. Woudhuysen
- Conversations about time and space : early modern books and contemporary artists' books Sujata Iyengar
- The early modern book as metaphor Jeff Dolven
- Part IV. Using books : reading and marking, collecting and preserving. Past, present, and future : early modern collections and the work of a curator Caroline Duroselle-Melish
- Self-reading books : marginalia, prosopopoeia and book history Emma Smith
- Book modification Georgina Wilson
- Early modern books and phonography Bruce R. Smith
- Transience and loss Alexandra Hill
- Owning, preserving, and transmitting the text : early modern libraries and their users / David Pearson
- Provenance narratives in the twenty-first century / Kathryn James
- Broken books and fragile print : a conservation perspective / Nikki Tomkins
- The history of the early modern book in the digital age / Whitney Trettien.