'Grossly Material Things': Women and Book Production in Early Modern England

by HelenSmith (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $188.62

  Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.