Waste paper in early modern England : privy tokens / Anna Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, Anna (Lecturer), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waste paper--England--History.

Waste paper.

Waste paper--Recycling--England--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

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.

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5 Out of Date Almanacs and Middleton's 'Mouldy Stuff'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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-888272-6

0-19-199143-0

0-19-888271-8

OCLC:

1412506004