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Author:

Calhoun, Joshua, 1979- author.

Title:

The nature of the page : poetry, papermaking, and the ecology of texts in Renaissance England / Joshua Calhoun.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--Criticism, Textual.
Paper--England--History--16th century.
Paper--England--History--17th century.
Papermaking--England--History--16th century.
Papermaking--England--History--17th century.
Books and reading--England--History--16th century.
Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
Human ecology and the humanities.
Books and reading.
English literature--Early modern.
Human ecology and the humanities.
Paper.
Papermaking.
England.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"This book discusses paper in Renaissance England-about what it was elementally, and about what it was not; about what a page of paper did, what it was made to do, and what it would not do; about what it made representable and unrepresentable, recordable and revisable, preservable and destructible. Paper is the product of nature and culture, of nonhuman and human agency. This book is also an environmental story about the ecology of paper and about the ecosystems in which poets and plants can become (and un-become) Renaissance literature. And because plants, like humans, will eventually deteriorate, this is also a story about corruption-corruption and replication and the desperate hope that we can out-replicate the thing we love so as to preserve it from decay"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Material texts

ISBN:

081225189X
9780812251890

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1124777089

LCCN:

2019044432

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)