Bound to Read by Jeffrey Todd Knight
Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.-
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
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The Medieval Craft of Memory
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Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls
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The Trouble with Ownership
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Colonial Revivals
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Queer Philologies
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The Incarnate Text
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Gatherings
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The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
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Textual Situations
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Paper Monsters
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Subscription Theater
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Romantic Marks and Measures
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Historical Style
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The Mind Is a Collection
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Books and Readers in Early Modern England
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The Nature of the Page
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Owning William Shakespeare
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The Camera and the Press
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Pens and Needles
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Reading Children
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The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal
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Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms
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Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain
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Reading Women
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The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825
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Bitstreams
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Blind Impressions
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Printing the Middle Ages
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Evening News
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Out of Sorts
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Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe
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American Contact
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Recipes for Thought
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The Venetian Qur'an
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Divine Art, Infernal Machine
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Knowing Books
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Won in Translation
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The Literary Market
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The Art of Allusion
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Front Lines
"Bound to Read is an enormously learned and yet always energetically written account of book collecting practices in early modern EnglandMaking available to our view a material history of early modern books that later practices of text collecting and transmission ignored, or worse, obliterated, Knight brilliantly challenges a set of widely held and long-cherished assumptions about reading practices, about the literature we read, and about the literary histories we depend upon." * David Scott Kastan, Yale University *
"Bound to Read is meticulously researched, absolutely stuffed with new facts about fascinating old books, elegantly written, cogently argued, and a genuinely new contribution to the history of the book." * Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto *
"Bound to Read is meticulously researched, absolutely stuffed with new facts about fascinating old books, elegantly written, cogently argued, and a genuinely new contribution to the history of the book." * Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto *
Jeffrey Todd Knight is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812245073 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812245075 |
| Title | Bound to Read |
| Author | Jeffrey Todd Knight |
| Series | Material Texts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-29 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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