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Louise Wilson Edited by Helen SmithCambridge University Press, 5/31/2011EAN 9780521117395, ISBN10: 0521117399Hardcover, 300 pages, 23.5 x 16 x 1.9 cmLanguage: EnglishIn his 1987 wo
rk Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.Introduction Helen Smith and Louise WilsonPart I. Orders of the Book1. 'Imprinted by Simeon such a signe'reading early modern imprints Helen Smith2. 'Intended to offenders'the running titles of early modern books Matthew Day3. Changed opinion as to flowers Juliet Fleming4. The beginning of 'The End'terminal paratext and the birth of print culture William H. ShermanPart II. Making Readers5. Editorial pledges in early modern dramatic paratexts Sonia Massai6. Status anxiety and English Renaissance translation Neil Rhodes7. Playful paratextsthe front matter of Anthony Munday's Iberian Romance translations Louise Wilson8. 'Signifying, but not sounding'gender and paratext in the complaint genre Danielle ClarkePart III. Books and Users9. Unannotating Spenser Jason Scott-Warren10. Reading the homethe case of The English Housewife Wendy Wall11. Pictures, places and spacesSidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the Songe de Poliphile Hester Lees-JeffriesAfterword Peter StallybrassSelect bibliography.
