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 …

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 …

This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture
in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in …

¿ Por qué razón quienes hacen teoría literaria ven la lectura como una actividad de análisis
textual desapasionado cuando las pruebas históricas indican que muy a menudo los …

This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in
1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in …

At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self
came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the"" other"""" Ireland, however, proved a …

It has traditionally been held that Robert Southwell's poetry offers a curious view of
Elizabethan England, one that is from the restricted perspective of a priest-hole. This book …

The'book'-both material and metaphoric-is strewn throughout Shakespeare's plays: it is held
by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; buried deep in the mudded ooze by …

A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness
in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed …

And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This
is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. Experts will bear me out when I say that it is …