This book explores the significance of the physicality of manuscripts and printed early modern texts. Focusing on the material aspects and social practices of texts as a new way of reading meaning, it reassesses the developing relationships between cultures of manuscript and print from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century.

CEDRIC C. BROWN Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Reading, UK VICTORIA E. BURKE Associate Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, Canada CHRISTOPHER BURLINSON College Lecturer in English at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK JONATHAN GIBSON English Subject Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ANDREW GORDON Co-Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies and Programme Co-ordinator of the Department of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK MARK KNIGHTS Professor of History, Warwick University, UK MARY ANN LUND Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester, UK ARTHUR F. MAROTTI Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA GILLIAN WRIGHT Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham, UK