Boxes and Books in Early Modern England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108831338)

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.

Author: Lucy Razzall
ISBN-10: 1108831338
ISBN-13: 9781108831338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2021
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d