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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature - An Archaeology of Absence (Hardcover)
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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature - An Archaeology of Absence (Hardcover)
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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is
an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages
of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more
generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap'
(where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing,
lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in the first
place). It re-imagines how early modern people reacted not just to
printed books and documents of many different kinds, but also how
the very idea of emptiness or absence began to be fashioned in a
way which still surrounds us. Jonathan Sawday leads the reader
through the entire landscape of early modern print culture,
discussing topics such as: space and silence; the exploration of
the vacuum; the ways in which race and racial identity in early
modern England were constructed by the language and technology of
print; blackness and whiteness, together with lightness, darkness,
and sightlessness; cartography and emptiness; the effect of
typography on reading practices; the social spaces of the page;
gendered surfaces; hierarchies of information; books of memory;
pages constructed as waste or vacant; the genesis of blank forms
and early modern bureaucracy; the political and devotional spaces
of printed books; the impact of censorship; and the problem posed
by texts which lack endings or conclusions. The book itself ends by
dwelling on blank or empty pages as a sign of human mortality.
Sawday pays close attention to the writings of many of the familiar
figures in English Renaissance literary culture - Sidney,
Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton, for example - as well as
introducing readers to a host of lesser-known figures. The book
also discusses the work of numerous women writers from the period,
including Aphra Behn, Ann Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Lady Jane
Gray, Lucy Hutchinson, Æmelia Lanyer, Isabella Whitney, and Lady
Mary Wroth.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
Jonathan Sawday
(Walter J. Ong, SJ, Chair in the Humanities, Department of English)
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Dimensions: |
234 x 153mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
592 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-284564-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Archaeology >
Archaeological theory
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LSN: |
0-19-284564-0 |
Barcode: |
9780192845641 |
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