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OverviewBlanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the 'gap' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in the first place). It re-imagines how early modern people reacted not just to printed books and documents of many different kinds, but also how the very idea of emptiness or absence began to be fashioned in a way which still surrounds us. Jonathan Sawday leads the reader through the entire landscape of early modern print culture, discussing topics such as: space and silence; the exploration of the vacuum; the ways in which race and racial identity in early modern England were constructed by the language and technology of print; blackness and whiteness, together with lightness, darkness, and sightlessness; cartography and emptiness; the effect of typography on reading practices; the social spaces of the page; gendered surfaces; hierarchies of information; books of memory; pages constructed as waste or vacant; the genesis of blank forms and early modern bureaucracy; the political and devotional spaces of printed books; the impact of censorship; and the problem posed by texts which lack endings or conclusions. The book itself ends by dwelling on blank or empty pages as a sign of human mortality. Sawday pays close attention to the writings of many of the familiar figures in English Renaissance literary culture - Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, and Milton, for example - as well as introducing readers to a host of lesser-known figures. The book also discusses the work of numerous women writers from the period, including Aphra Behn, Ann Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Lady Jane Gray, Lucy Hutchinson, Æmelia Lanyer, Isabella Whitney, and Lady Mary Wroth. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jonathan Sawday (Walter J. Ong, SJ, Chair in the Humanities, Department of English, Walter J. Ong, SJ, Chair in the Humanities, Department of English, Saint Louis University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 1.092kg ISBN: 9780192845641ISBN 10: 0192845640 Pages: 592 Publication Date: 28 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Archaeology of Absence Landscapes 1: Experiencing the Blank 2: Inky faces and an Empty World: Print, Race, and Cartography 3: Reading the early Modern Page 4: The Social Space of the Page 5: Vacant leaves and Waste Blanks Excavations 6: Reconstructing the Blank Archive 7: Missing Text 8: Poetry and Space in the Seventeenth Century 9: Censored Space 10: Unfinished...ReviewsAuthor InformationJonathan Sawday is a cultural and literary historian. He is currently the Walter J. Ong., SJ, Chair in the Humanities in the Department of English at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is the author and co-editor of five previous books, and many essays, articles, and reviews, chiefly on the literature and culture of the early modern period in the British Isles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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