The Reader in the Book: A Study of Spaces and Traces (Oxford Textual Perspectives) - Softcover

Orgel, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198737556 ISBN 13: 9780198737551

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Reader in the Book examines the history, archaeology, and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces in early modern books to shed light on reading practices, how books were read, and what early modern readerse wanted texts to tell them.

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About the Author

Stephen Orgel, J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University

Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in the Humanities at Stanford. He has published widely on the political and historical aspects of Renaissance literature, theater, and art history. He has taught at Harvard, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins, and has been visiting professor at universities throughout the world. In addition to his eight books, he has edited Ben Jonson's masques, Christopher Marlowe's poems and translations, the Oxford Authors John Milton, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in The Oxford Shakespeare, and several novels by Trollope and Edith Wharton in the Oxford World's Classics. He is a general editor of the New Pelican Shakespeare.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198737556
• ISBN 13: 9780198737551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192