The Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England / edited by Adam Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smyth, Adam, 1972- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--England--History--1450-1600.

Books.

Books--England--History--17th century.

Books and reading--England--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

England.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Handbook of the history of the book in early modern England

History of the book in early modern England

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This handbook 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 America, the volume considers the production, reception, circulation, consumption, destruction, loss, modification, recycling, and conservation of books from different disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter discusses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, as well as offering critical insights on how we talk about the history of the book.

Contents:

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 \ Richard Lawrence

Monuments and trifles : which books do we use to tell the history of the book? \ Jason Scott-Warren

What was a print shop, and what happened there? \ Paul 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 Philips

Science and the book in early modern England

Adrian Johns

Waste, offcuts, remains, reuse \ Anna Reynolds

'The Book-sellars Shop' : Browsing, Reading, and Buying in Early Modern England \ Ben Higgins

Internationalism and the English book trade \ Hanna de Lange \ Andrew Pettegree

'A Gifte of good Moment' : a new history of the stationers' benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 161 \ Tara L. Lyons

Multi-lingual print \ A.E.B. Coldiron

Contexts for Circulation : households, university, inns of Court, 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

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.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Smyth, Adam The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Print version: Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England.

ISBN:

9780191881336

0191881333

9780192585189

0192585185

9780192585172

0192585177

OCLC:

1393439388