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Blanks, print, space, and void in English renaissance literature : an archaeology of absence / Jonathan Sawday.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawday, Jonathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emptiness (Philosophy) in literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Printing--England--History--16th century.
- Printing.
- Printing--England--History--17th century.
- English literature--Early modern.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 574 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in the first place). It re-imagines how early modern people reacted not just to printed books and documents of many different kinds, but also how the very idea of emptiness or absence began to be fashioned in a way which still surrounds us."-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Towards an archaeology of absence
- Part I. Landscapes
- Experiencing the blank
- Inky faces and an empty world : print, race, and cartography
- Reading the early modern page
- The social space of the page
- Vacant leaves and waste blanks
- Part II. Excavations
- Exploring the blank archive
- Missing text
- Poetry and space in the seventeenth century
- Censored space
- Unfinished
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sawday, Jonathan. Blanks, print, space, and void in English renaissance literature.
- ISBN:
- 0192845640
- 9780192845641
- OCLC:
- 1369516304
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