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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 August 2021
      19 August 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108916912
      9781108831338
      9781108932745
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108916912
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.392kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
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    In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negotiations of the book itself as text and material object. Engaging with recent work on material culture and the history of the book, Lucy Razzall weaves together close readings of texts and objects, from wills, plays, sermons and religious polemic, to chests, book-bindings, reliquaries and coffins. She demonstrates how the material and imaginative possibilities of the box were dynamically connected in post-Reformation England, structuring modes of thought. These early modern responses to materiality offer ways in which the discipline of book history might reframe its analysis of the material text. In tracing the early modern significance of the box as matter and metaphor, this book reveals the origins of some of the enduring habits of thought with which we still respond to people, texts and things.

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