Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 09 September 2014

This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 39,8 Mb
• Release Date : 09 September 2014

This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 23,9 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2023

The first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period, this book focuses chiefly on fifteenth-century manuscripts and discusses how these volumes were read,

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 11 January 2018

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

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 05 March 2024

Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
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• Release Date : 29 April 2019

Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 28 August 2019

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted and appropriated onto stage, screen, page,

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 03 May 2018

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 12 July 2018

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 December 2018

Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books