Practices of ephemera in early modern England / edited by Callan Davies, Hannah Lilley and Catherine Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Callan, 1990- editor.

Lilley, Hannah, editor.

Richardson, Catherine (Catherine Teresa), editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Material readings in early modern culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printed ephemera--England--History--16th century.

Printed ephemera.

Printed ephemera--England--History--17th century.

Printed ephemera--England--History--18th century.

Material culture--England--History--16th century.

Material culture.

Material culture--England--History--17th century.

Material culture--England--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 236 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Catherine Richardson is Professor of Early Modern Studies and Director of the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Kent. She studies early modern material culture, and has written books on Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England (Manchester, 2006), Shakespeare and Material Culture (Oxford University Press, 2011) and, with Tara Hamling, A Day at Home in Early Modern England, The Materiality of Domestic Life, 1500-1700 (Yale 2017). She has edited Arden of Faversham for Arden Early Modern Drama, and is PI on the AHRC project 'The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort': https://research.kent.ac.uk/middling-culture/ Hannah Lilley is an independent scholar, previously of the University of Birmingham. She is interested in the material culture of early modern scribal practice. Callan Davies works across early modern literary, cultural, and theatre history. He's part of the Box Office Bears project (researching animal sports in early modern England), as well as the Middling Culture (www.middlingculture.com) team examining early modern status, creativity, writing, and material culture, and the Before Shakespeare team (www.beforeshakespeare.com). His book, What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620, is an accessible account of the playhouse across early modern England (Routledge 2022). He is the Editor of the Curtain playhouse records for Records of Early English Drama's Records of Early English Drama REED London Online and author of Strangeness in Jacobean Drama (Routledge, 2020) as well as articles across literature and history journals.

Contents:

Expired Time: Archiving Waste Manuscripts / Megan Heffernan

What do Texts and Insects have in Common?; or, Ephemerality before Ephemera / Anna Reynolds

Time's Flies: Ephemerality in the Early Modern Insect World / Bruce Boehrer

What is an 'ephemeral archive'? : Stratford-upon-Avon, 1550-1650: a case study / Robert Bearman

Paper and Elite Ephemerality / Alison Wiggins

Recipes and Paper Knowledge / Elaine Leong

More lasting than bronze: statues, writing, and the materials of ephemera in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall / Katherine Hunt

Uncovering Ephemeral Practice: Itineraries of Black Ink and the Experiments of Thomas Davis / Hannah Lilley

Things That Last: Ephemerality and Endurance in Early Modern England / Helen Smith

Toy Coach from London / Michael Lewis

Maritime Ephemera in Walter Mountford's The Launching of the Mary / Jemima Matthews

Playing Apples and the Playhouse Archive / Callan Davies

Extensive Ephemera: Perfumer's Trade Cards in Eighteenth-Century England / William Tullet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 11, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Practices of ephemera in early modern England

ISBN:

9781003058588

1003058582

9781000833898

1000833895

9781000833928

1000833925

Publisher Number:

40031687756

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