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

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.

• | By (Author): Helen Smith (Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, University of York) (Author)
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 03, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0199651582
• | ISBN-13: 9780199651580