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Focusing on how women participated in the book trades as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, as well as their more widely studied involvement as authors, this text foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes and meanings of publication. Broomhall broadens her discussion of the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. The work also presents a checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts between 1488 and 1599. CONTENTS: Introduction; CONTEXTS
OF FEMALE PUBLICATION: Women's experiences as readers, owners
and collectors of books; Women working in the book trades; Women
publishing: theoretical and practical contexts; Female Authors
in print:the struggle for textual control; STRATEGIES OF FEMALE
PUBLICATION: Dynamic boundaries: social status, geography and
gender in publication; Domestic speech: rhetorical strategies
of family and household; In the margins: gender, textual relation
and location; Conclusions; Appendix: A checklist of first and
significant editions; Bibliography; Index. |