'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production in Early Modern England

by Helen Smith

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It charts a new history of making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped and altered the books of this crucial period, as co-authors,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199651582
• ISBN13: 9780199651580
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"