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'Smyth - one of our best and most inventive readers of textual materiality - has answers that affirm and often dazzle ... Material Texts in Early Modern England is lively and engaging throughout, but Smyth's insights can be striking when he takes risks or otherwise breaks with disciplinary decorum. The revelatory chapter on waste flirts with radical anti-intentionalism in reading detached leaves and stubs from Astrophel and Stella alongside an unrelated 'host' book, yet it also locates patterns of textual recycling in the record of extant binder's waste that will fascinate empirically minded scholars. Regularly in Smyth's handling, some aspect of the textual habitus that seems mundane or incidental to literary study is quickened with meaning.' Jeffrey Todd Knight, Review of English Studies 'Smyth - one of our best and most inventive readers of textual materiality - has answers that affirm and often dazzle ... Material Texts in Early Modern England is lively and engaging throughout, but Smyth's insights can be striking when he takes risks or otherwise breaks with disciplinary decorum. The revelatory chapter on waste flirts with radical anti-intentionalism in reading detached leaves and stubs from Astrophel and Stella alongside an unrelated `host' book, yet it also locates patterns of textual recycling in the record of extant binder's waste that will fascinate empirically minded scholars. Regularly in Smyth's handling, some aspect of the textual habitus that seems mundane or incidental to literary study is quickened with meaning.' Jeffrey Todd Knight, Review of English Studies

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Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at the University of Oxford. He is the author of, among other things, Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010); Profit and Delight: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640–82 (2004); the editor of A History of English Autobiography (Cambridge, 2016); and the co-editor, with Gill Partington, of Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (2014). He has published widely on the literary and bibliographical cultures of early modern England. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

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