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The Nature of the Page - Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England (Hardcover)
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The Nature of the Page - Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England (Hardcover)
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An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on
papermaking in the Renaissance In The Nature of the Page, Joshua
Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England
and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made
primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old
clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and
about plants that frustrated papermakers' best attempts to replace
scarce natural resources with abundant ones. Because plants, like
humans, are susceptible to the ravages of time, it is also a story
of corruption and the hope that we can preserve the things we love
from decay. Combining environmental and bibliographical research
with deft literary analysis, Calhoun reveals how much we have left
to discover in familiar texts. He describes the transformation of
plant material into a sheet of paper, details how ecological
availability or scarcity influenced literary output in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and examines the impact of the
various colors and qualities of paper on early modern reading
practices. Through a discussion of sizing-the mixture used to coat
the surface of paper so that ink would not blot into its fibers-he
reveals a surprising textual interaction between animals and
readers. He shows how we might read an indistinct stain on the page
of an early modern book to better understand the mixed media
surfaces on which readers, writers, and printers recorded and
revised history. Lastly, Calhoun considers how early modern writers
imagined paper decay and how modern scholars grapple with
biodeterioration today. Exploring the poetic interplay between
human ideas and the plant, animal, and mineral forms through which
they are mediated, The Nature of the Page prompts readers to
reconsider the role of the natural world in everything from old
books to new smartphones.
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