Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gerard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Pictures, places and spaces: Sidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the Songe de Poliphile Hester Lees-Jeffries Reading the home: the case of The English Housewife Wendy Wall 'Signifying, but not sounding': gender and paratext in the complaint genre Danielle Clarke Playful paratexts: the front matter of Anthony Munday's Iberian Romance translations Louise Wilson Status anxiety and English Renaissance translation Neil Rhodes Editorial pledges in early modern dramatic paratexts Sonia Massai The beginning of 'The End': terminal paratext and the birth of print culture William H. Changed opinion as to flowers Juliet Fleming 'Intended to offenders': the running titles of early modern books Matthew Day 'Imprinted by Simeon such a signe': reading early modern imprints Helen Smith Introduction Helen Smith and Louise Wilson.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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