{"product_id":"womens-bookscapes-in-early-modern-leah-knight-9780472131099","title":"Women's Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women's reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In thirteen probing essays, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Bookscapes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein Early Modern Britain\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British women's figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of women's readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of women's libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The volume's three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidence--lists of confiscated books and convent rules, for example--as well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collection's fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; women's literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leah Knight, Micheline White, Elizabeth Sauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472131095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472131099\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2019","brand":"Leah Knight","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919900737791,"sku":"9780472131099","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8675ec82-24b5-474a-929e-3601dd8f8b59.jpg?v=1680812533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/womens-bookscapes-in-early-modern-leah-knight-9780472131099","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}