{"product_id":"paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature-hardcover","title":"Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorgina Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaper and the Making of Early Modern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books and of English literature. Taking up four paradigms of literary scholarship--authorship, composition, form, and reuse--Georgina Wilson shows how the material affordances of paper shaped the work of readers, writers, and critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking past the surface of printed texts to less legible forms of labor, Wilson models literary critical readings of paper's physical aspects, from watermarks to rotatable paper dials, in Ben Jonson's \u003ci\u003eSejanus His Fall \u003c\/i\u003eand George Wither's emblems, sheets, and fragments. Turning from paper's specific physical attributes to authors who were preoccupied with its imaginative potential, Wilson explores how paper's tangible qualities intervened in what readers and writers did with it, tracing formalist, legal, and political debates on the textual and nontextual uses of paper through the works of John Taylor and eighteenth-century \"it-narratives.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing upon examples from early modern drama, poetry, and prose to consider the real and imagined women and men who made and used paper, Wilson demonstrates how early modern paper was both the product of embodied labor and of the early modern imagination. Bringing together close reading, critical bibliography, archival research, and literary theory, \u003ci\u003ePaper and the Making of Early Modern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e shows how paper makes literature not only as a physical object but also as a discipline.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgina Wilson is an early modern literary scholar specializing in material texts. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eCriticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInscription: The Journal of Material Text--Theory, Practice, History\u003c\/i\u003e. She writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43339974901849,"sku":"9781512827446","price":106.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/2nXkH4bynw9781512827446.webp?v=1779441305","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature-hardcover","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}