“how many paire of Latin sheets, we haue shaken & cut into shreds”: Rethinking the Book in Early Modern Material Culture
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This essay offers a materially grounded reading of the early modern book with a special emphasis on the extent to which the physical aspect of the book participates in the process of meaning-making through its relationship with a human agent. Recent developments in the history of reading and textual scholarship have complicated the notion and status of the book, underscoring the dynamic relationship between books and human activities. Hence I call attention to early modern books as complex material objects that not only carry considerable cultural freight but also serve as powerful media of cultural translations of human agency and identity. Looking closely at bookbinding, which is the first physical element of the book we experience and thus a tangible and immediate reminder of a book’s thingness, I scrutinize the ways in which the non-verbal performativity of the book engages with expressive selfhood and gestures toward a larger social and symbolic plentitude. This essay does not aim to advance a comprehensive account of the early modern book-as-thing and its shifting status. I nevertheless hope to foster vigorous dialogue about how we might conceptualize the materiality of the book, and by extension, the material culture in which the book is located.
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This essay offers a materially grounded reading of the early modern book with a special emphasis on the extent to which the physical aspect of the book participates in the process of meaning-making through its relationship with a human agent. Recent developments in the history of reading and textual scholarship have complicated the notion and status of the book, underscoring the dynamic relationship between books and human activities. Hence I call attention to early modern books as complex material objects that not only carry considerable cultural freight but also serve as powerful media of cultural translations of human agency and identity. Looking closely at bookbinding, which is the first physical element of the book we experience and thus a tangible and immediate reminder of a book’s thingness, I scrutinize the ways in which the non-verbal performativity of the book engages with expressive selfhood and gestures toward a larger social and symbolic plentitude. This essay does not aim to advance a comprehensive account of the early modern book-as-thing and its shifting status. I nevertheless hope to foster vigorous dialogue about how we might conceptualize the materiality of the book, and by extension, the material culture in which the book is located.
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