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'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production in Early Modern England

by Helen Smith

2020-05-07 08:31:55

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Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint and asks who made the books of the English Renaissance. It covers the ways in which women participated as co-... Read more
Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint and asks who made the books of the English Renaissance. It covers the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, readers, and booksellers. Less

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File size5.70(w)x8.50(h)x0.90
Print pages272
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date August 18, 2012
ISBN9780199651580
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Helen Smith
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Helen Smith lives in Norfolk and teaches non-fiction and modern literature at the University of East Anglia. The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett is her first book; it received a RSL-Jerwood...

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