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Author Smith, Helen, 1977- author.

Title 'Grossly material things' : women and book production in early modern England / Helen Smith
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages)
Series ACLS Humanites E-book
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents 'Pen'd with double art': women at the scene of writing -- 'A dame, an owner, a defendresse': women, patronage, and print -- 'A free Stationers wife of this companye': women and the Stationers -- 'Certaine women brokers and peddlers': beyond the London book trades -- 'No deformitie can abide before the sunne': imagining early modern women's reading
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women in the book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century
Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History
Authorship -- Collaboration -- History
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
Authorship -- Collaboration
English literature -- Early modern
English literature -- Women authors
Women -- Books and reading
Women in the book industries and trade
England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191636516
0191636517
1280880058
9781280880056
9780191741654
0191741655