The nature of the page : poetry, papermaking, and the ecology of texts in Renaissance England / Joshua Calhoun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calhoun, Joshua, 1979- author.

Series:

Material texts.

Material texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--Criticism, Textual.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book discusses paper in Renaissance England-about what it was elementally, and about what it was not; about what a page of paper did, what it was made to do, and what it would not do; about what it made representable and unrepresentable, recordable and revisable, preservable and destructible. Paper is the product of nature and culture, of nonhuman and human agency. This book is also an environmental story about the ecology of paper and about the ecosystems in which poets and plants can become (and un-become) Renaissance literature. And because plants, like humans, will eventually deteriorate, this is also a story about corruption-corruption and replication and the desperate hope that we can out-replicate the thing we love so as to preserve it from decay"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8122-9674-5