Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature

Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books and of English literature. Taking up four paradigms of literary scholarship—authorship, composition, form, and reuse—Georgina Wilson shows how the material affordances of paper shaped the work of readers, writers, and critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Looking past the surface of printed texts to less legible forms of labor, Wilson models literary critical readings o