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LEADER: 03827nam a22003858a 4500
001 2012004253
003 DLC
005 20120217162016.0
008 120215s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012004253
020 $a9780199651580
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050 00 $aZ325$b.S655 2012
082 00 $a381/.450020820942$223
084 $aLIT004290$aLIT007000$aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSmith, Helen,$d1977-
245 10 $a'Grossly material things' :$bwomen and book production in early modern England /$cHelen Smith.
260 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1205
300 $apages cm
520 $a"In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It charts a new history of making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped and altered the books of this crucial period, as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of sources, including court records, letters, diaries, medical texts, and the books themselves, 'Grossly Material Things' moves between the realms of manuscript and print, and tells the stories of literary, political, and religious texts from broadside ballads to plays, monstrous birth pamphlets to editions of the Bible. In uncovering the neglected history of women's textual labours, and the places and spaces in which women went about the business of making, Helen Smith offers a new perspective on the history of books and reading. Where Woolf believed that Shakespeare's sister, had she existed, would have had no opportunity to pursue a literary career, 'Grossly Material Things' paints a compelling picture of Judith Shakespeare's varied job prospects, and promises to reshape our understanding of gendered authorship in the English Renaissance"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- List of abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the reader -- Introduction: 'Grossly Material Things' -- 1. 'Pen'd with double art': Women at the Scene of Writing -- 2. 'A dame, an owner, a defendresse': Women, Patronage, and Print -- 3. 'A free Stationers wife of this companye': Women and the Stationers -- 4. 'Certaine women brokers and peddlers': Beyond the London Book Trades -- 5. 'No deformitie can abide before the sunne': Imagining Early Modern Women's Reading -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index.
650 0 $aWomen in the book industries and trade$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aWomen in the book industries and trade$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aWomen$xBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xCollaboration$xHistory.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh