Women s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England (e-bog) af -
Valerie Wayne, Wayne (redaktør)

Women s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England e-bog

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This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contem...
E-bog 200,69 DKK
Forfattere Valerie Wayne, Wayne (redaktør)
Udgivet 14 maj 2020
Længde 336 sider
Genrer Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781350110021
This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon. A focus on women's work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in. Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities. Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books.