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EBOOK 'Grossly Material Things':Women and Book Production in Early Modern England
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191636516
EAN: F1FE6D92EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2012
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In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material        things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's        brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English        Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It        charts a new history of making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped        and altered the books of this crucial period, as co-authors, editors,        translators,patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.Drawing on evidence from a        wide range of sources, including court records, letters, diaries, medical texts, and        the books themselves, 'Grossly Material Things' moves between the realms of        manuscript and print, and tells the stories of literary, political, and religious        texts from broadside ballads to plays, monstrous birth pamphlets to editions of the        Bible. In uncovering the neglected history of women's textual labours, and the        places and spaces in which women went about the businessof making, Helen Smith        offers a new perspective on the history of books and reading. Where Woolf believed        that Shakespeare's sister, had she existed, would have had no opportunity to pursue        a literary career, 'Grossly Material Things' paints a compelling picture of Judith        Shakespeare's varied job prospects,and promises to reshape our understanding of        gendered authorship in the English Renaissance.

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