{"product_id":"waste-paper-in-early-modern-anna-reynolds-9780198882701","title":"Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens","description":"The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Paired with the common misconception that paper would have been too valuable to 'waste' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these tropes have been read as scatological flights of fancy. \u003cem\u003eWaste Paper in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e argues that such commonplaces are in fact indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets. It demonstrates that waste paper makes visible a radically different understanding of waste matter in the early modern period than in our own. More than a rhetorical aside, repurposed pages were both materially and figuratively useful. Drawing on a range of literary, pictorial, and bibliographical sources, \u003cem\u003eWaste Paper in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how layers of meaning accreted around paper fragments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how, because of the widespread sensitivity to the life cycle of paper and books, wasted pages prompted meaningful imaginative work. The book's five chapters recount how, in this period, the biography of waste paper provided a thing to think with concerning matter and temporality - a potent and flexible emblem for the troublesome passage of books and all other sorts of bodies through time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019888270X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198882701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Anna Reynolds","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809604563199,"sku":"9780198882701","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea6b093c-ccfb-497a-b1ec-0a0d3f4897f6.jpg?v=1707926962","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waste-paper-in-early-modern-anna-reynolds-9780198882701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}