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Book Review: The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England by Joshua Calhoun. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History, 2020, Vol.23, p.239-301 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Book Review: The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England by Joshua Calhoun. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020
Author: Sawyer, Daniel
Subjects: Air transportation ; Anthropocentrism ; Decay rate ; Ecology ; Environmental impact ; History ; Libraries ; Literary devices ; Papermaking ; Poetry ; Readers ; Reading ; Writing ; Writing processes
Is Part Of: Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History, 2020, Vol.23, p.239-301
Description: The fifth chapter takes the idea of survival forward, discussing the gradual deterioration of early-modern books, and interestingly, the environmental impact of the effort to manage and slow their decay in present-day special collections libraries. Calhoun reaps the benefits of wide reading, not just in book history but also in publications for papermakers and conservators; he has also, laudably, interviewed some present-day papermakers and had a go at some reconstructed papermaking processes. The current pandemic postdates Calhoun's writing process but has driven home how much work on the physical book has relied on air travel, how small a proportion ofpremodern books are available in digital facsimile, and how insufficient digital facsimiles are.
Publisher: New York: Pace University
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1525-6790
Source: ProQuest Central

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