Adam Smyth

Material Texts in Early Modern England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421324
• ISBN-10: 1108421326
• Artikelnr.: 49087506

Autorenporträt

Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at the University of Oxford. He is the author of, among other things, Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010); Profit and Delight: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-82 (2004); the editor of A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge, 2016); and the co-editor, with Gill Partington, of Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (2014). He has published widely on the literary and bibliographical cultures of early modern England. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'the Case of man'
1. Cutting texts: 'prune and lop away'
2. Burning texts: 'his studyeing chaire ... was of Strawe'
3. Errors and corrections: 'my galley charged with forgetfulness'
4. Printed waste: 'tatters Allegoricall'
Conclusion.