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The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature (Paperback): Rachel Stenner

The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)

Rachel Stenner

Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture

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The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms: printers' manuals; William Caxton's paratexts; the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward; poetic miscellanies; the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Release date: March 2021
First published: 2019
Authors: Rachel Stenner
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-78703-5
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
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LSN: 0-367-78703-2
Barcode: 9780367787035

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