In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century
volume as" rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition …

How did academic and literary writers living in rural Britain in the 1680s establish their
careers and find audiences for their work? What factors influenced the choices of essayists …

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of
a wide range of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century English readers. Heidi Brayman Hackel …

A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the
Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the …

Feminist Speculations and the Practice of Research-Creation provides a unique introduction
to research-creation as a methodology, and a series of exemplifications of research-creation …

Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in
early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as …

In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial
to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and …

A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of …

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 …

It shows that, far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press had an
essential role to play in the birth of the modern theatre, crucially shaping the normative …