Verfasst von:	Reynolds, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Waste paper in early modern England
Titelzusatz:	privy tokens
Verf.angabe:	Anna Reynolds
Verlagsort:	Oxford, United Kingdom
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
E-Jahr:	2024
Jahr:	[2024]
Umfang:	ix, 227 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis Seite 200-222
ISBN:	978-0-19-888270-1
Abstract:	The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Paired with the common misconception that paper would have been too valuable to 'waste' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these tropes have been read as scatological flights of fancy. "Waste paper in Early Modern England" argues that such commonplaces are in fact indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets. It demonstrates that waste paper makes visible a radically different understanding of waste matter in the early modern period than in our own. More than a rhetorical aside, repurposed pages were both materially and figuratively useful. Drawing on a range of literary, pictorial, and bibliographical sources, "Waste paper in Early Modern England" reveals how layers of meaning accreted around paper fragments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how, because of the widespread sensitivity to the life cycle of paper and books, wasted pages prompted meaningful imaginative work. The book's five chapters recount how, in this period, the biography of waste paper provided a thing to think with concerning matter and temporality - a potent and flexible emblem for the troublesome passage of books and all other sorts of bodies through time
DOI:	doi:10.1093/oso/9780198882701.001.0001
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	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198882701.001.0001
Schlagwörter:	(g)England    / (s)Altpapier    / (s)Palimpsest    / (s)Neuzeit    / (z)Geschichte 1450-1650
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
	HISTORY / Social History
	LIT019000
	Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
	Literary studies: general
	Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
	Social & cultural history
	Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
Zeit-SW:	16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.)
	17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.)
K10plus-PPN:	1878589059