Blanks, print, space, and void in English renaissance literature : an archaeology of absence

Blanks, print, space, and void in English renaissance literature : an archaeology of absence /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sawday, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Emptiness (Philosophy) in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Printing > England > History > 16th century.
Printing > England > History > 17th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature: An Archaeology of Absence
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Citations, Quotations, and Illustrations
  • Introduction: Towards an Archaeology of Absence
  • PART I: LANDSCAPES
  • 1: Experiencing the Blank
  • Cut to Black
  • Theorizing the Blank
  • "A Gap in Nature"
  • In the Beginning Was . . . the Gap
  • Space and Silence
  • Blankness: Blackness or Whiteness?
  • Conclusion: The Infinitude of Blackness
  • 2: Inky Faces and an Empty World: Print, Race, and Cartography
  • "The Definitive Triumph of Whites over Blacks"
  • Black and White
  • A History of Darkness
  • Discovering Whiteness
  • "Sooty Hands" and the Blackness of Ink
  • Cartographic Blankness: Creating an Empty World
  • Conclusion: What's in a Name?
  • 3: Reading the Early Modern Page
  • "Typographic Free Fall"
  • Script, Speech, Print, and Space
  • Quick and Slow Reading
  • Reading White Space
  • From Blackletter to Roman (and Back Again)
  • Listening to the King's Speech in 1616
  • Space and Meaning on the Early Modern Page
  • The Search for Order
  • Ornaments and the Problem of Emptiness
  • Conclusion: Filling the Void
  • 4: The Social Space of the Page
  • The Blank Page
  • White Paper
  • Female Surfaces
  • Books of the Mind
  • Hierarchies of Space
  • Dedicatory Space
  • Dedicating The Faerie Queene, 1590-1609
  • Women and Dedicatory Space: The Dedications of John Florio and Emelia Lanier
  • Conclusion: Ben Jonson's Blank Pages
  • 5: Vacant Leaves and Waste Blanks
  • Where to Begin?
  • Intentional Blanks
  • Jane Grey and the Waste Blanks of Shakespeare's Sonnet 77
  • Interleaving Blank Pages
  • Books of Memory
  • The Blank Verso
  • Filling up Blank Spaces
  • Writing in the Endpapers
  • Conclusion: Typographic Men (and Women)?
  • PART II: EXCAVATIONS
  • 6: Exploring the Blank Archive
  • ". . . Paying Freight for the said Goods Negro Fifty Shillings . . ."
  • The Space of the Form
  • The Genesis of the Blank Form
  • Books or Forms? Printing the "First Folio" of Shakespeare's Plays
  • The Authority of the Blank Form
  • Fighting with Blanks, 1640-1650
  • Reading the Blank Archive
  • The Anxieties of the Blank
  • Conclusion: Inexplicable Blanks
  • 7: Missing Text
  • Interpreting Absence
  • "Desunt Nonnulla:" Something is Missing
  • "Purposely that Space I Left"
  • The Case of the Missing Couplet: Shakespeare's Sonnet 126
  • Conclusion: The Presence of the Missing
  • 8: Poetry and Space in the Seventeenth Century
  • Scored Space
  • The Vacant Pages of "His Maiesties Buik"
  • George Herbert and Devotional Space
  • Indented Space
  • The Ragged Spaces of John Donne's Poetry
  • The Politics of Print in the 1640s
  • Thomas Carew and Libertine Space
  • Royalist Space
  • John Milton, Print, and Space
  • Conclusion: Republican Space
  • 9: Censored Space
  • "A Blush on the Cheek of Modesty"

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