Reader in the Book
No CoverA scholarly study of early modern marginalia, tracing how readers marked books and when notes shifted from valued traces to defacement.
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A scholarly study of early modern marginalia, tracing how readers marked books and when notes shifted from valued traces to defacement.
A study of the archaeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. Marginalia constitute a significant dimension of the book's history, and what readers did to books often added to their value. This study deals with books in which the text and marginalia are in intense communication with each other, in which reading constitutes an active and sometimes adversarial engagement with the book. The underlying questions is at what point marginalia, the legible incorporation of the w...
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Academic discussion of early modern drama with sexual themes
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Historical context of Puritanism and early modern faith practices
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Puritan Revolution and sociology of reading practices discussed
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