Grossly Material Things

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199651582
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Grossly Material Things' written by Helen Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191636517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Grossly Material Things' written by Helen Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 business of 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.

Author : Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444332058
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text written by Andrew R. Murphy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studies Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s texts, and a useful bibliography Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the field Represents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004383026
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Imperatives for Women's Writing in Early Modern Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe addresses the central question of the professionalization of women’s writing before the eighteenth-century from a comparatist perspective, offering intriguing case studies on as yet an underdeveloped area in early modern studies.

Author : P. Pender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137342439
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing written by P. Pender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.

Author : Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108829996
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and the English Reformation written by Alexandra Walsham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Author : Patricia Pender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319587773
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration written by Patricia Pender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women’s texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women’s studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women’s writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from another, developing our understanding of literary agency beyond capital “A” authorship opens the field to the surprising range of roles that women played in the history of early modern books. Instead of trying to simply shift, disaggregate or adjudicate between competing claims for male or female priority in the production of early modern texts, Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration investigates the role that gender has played – and might continue to play – in understanding early modern collaboration and its consequences for women’s literary history.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626808
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory written by Julian Wolfreys and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the book addresses in detailed, accessible and rigorous essays the rise and significance of literary and cultural studies. Nearly thirty essays contribute to an understanding of the practice of literary studies presenting the reader with a perceptive series of critical interventions which, themselves, engage in the very locations from which criticism and theory have emerged.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.

Author : Josef Bláha
Publisher : Marek Konecný
ISBN 13 : 8090386059
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons from the Kabbalah and Jewish History written by Josef Bláha and published by Marek Konecný. This book was released on 2010 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gill Plain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139465823
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Feminist Literary Criticism written by Gill Plain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the Middle Ages to the present. The first section of the book explores protofeminist thought from the Middle Ages onwards, and analyses the work of pioneers such as Wollstonecraft and Woolf. The second section examines the rise of second-wave feminism and maps its interventions across the twentieth century. A final section examines the impact of postmodernism on feminist thought and practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the history and development of feminist literary criticism and a lively reassessment of the main issues and authors in the field. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of feminist writing and literary criticism.