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History of the Book 2017-2019

Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne

Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.
History of the Book 2017-2019

Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy

Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series.
The Paratexts Podcast

The Paratexts of Conrad Gessner

Professor Ann Blair on the uses of dedication and the multifarious paratexts of the early modern naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Gessner (1516-65)
The Paratexts Podcast

Modernist Marginalia

Dr Amanda Golden discusses the notes and underlinings that writers like Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath made in their books.
The Paratexts Podcast

Modernist Prefaces

Dr Sarah Copland on how Modernist writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad used the form of the Preface as a key to their own work, as well as the work of others.
The Paratexts Podcast

"To the Reader" Epistles

Dr Meaghan Brown discusses the early modern To the Reader epistle, in which publishers directly addressed their buying public.
Centre for the Study of the Book

'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-1900

Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles.
Centre for the Study of the Book

The History of Oxford University Press

Adam Smyth is joined by Professor Ian Gadd to discuss his just-published collection on the history of OUP.
Centre for the Study of the Book

Early modern plays in bits and pieces

Professor Tiffany Stern joins Dr Adam Smyth to discuss her current research on the materiality of the early modern play text. What happens to our thinking about plays when prologues, epilogues and songs become mobile pieces, detached from the whole?

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