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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101107463424

ISBN-139781107463424

eBay Product ID (ePID)204191038

Product Key Features

Number of Pages290 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRenaissance Paratexts

SubjectGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

AuthorLouise Wilson

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"The editors have provided a clear, theoretically supple introduction and Peter Stallybrass a fine afterword...this is a terrific volume that should be read by anyone interested in any aspect of early modern literature." -- Studies in English Literature, "Still, Renaissance Paratexts is essential reading not only for book historians, but for any literary scholar interested in the complex dialogue..." --Sharp News, "Well-known for their work on the topics on which they write in this volume, the contributing authors have a lot to say and they bring to light a wealth of neglected historical material." -- Renaissance Quarterly

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal002.09/024

Table Of ContentIntroduction Helen Smith and Louise Wilson; Part I. Orders of the Book: 1. 'Imprinted by Simeon such a signe': reading early modern imprints Helen Smith; 2. 'Intended to offenders': the running titles of early modern books Matthew Day; 3. Changed opinion as to flowers Juliet Fleming; 4. The beginning of 'The End': terminal paratext and the birth of print culture William H. Sherman; Part II. Making Readers: 5. Editorial pledges in early modern dramatic paratexts Sonia Massai; 6. Status anxiety and English Renaissance translation Neil Rhodes; 7. Playful paratexts: the front matter of Anthony Munday's Iberian Romance translations Louise Wilson; 8. 'Signifying, but not sounding': gender and paratext in the complaint genre Danielle Clarke; Part III. Books and Users: 9. Unannotating Spenser Jason Scott-Warren; 10. Reading the home: the case of The English Housewife Wendy Wall; 11. Pictures, places and spaces: Sidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the Songe de Poliphile Hester Lees-Jeffries; Afterword Peter Stallybrass; Select bibliography.

SynopsisCovering a wide range of texts, authors and genres, this collection takes a fresh look at the ways early modern books presented themselves to readers. Chapters provide novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and expose the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books., In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist G rard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality, and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text, and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading, and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating, and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books., 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 rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.

LC Classification NumberZ124