Boxes and Books in Early Modern England

Materiality, Metaphor, Containment

Lucy Razzall

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Cambridge University Press
27 July 2023

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Social & cultural history; Material culture

In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms, shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negotiations of the book itself as text and material object. Engaging with recent work on material culture and the history of the book, Lucy Razzall weaves together close readings of texts and objects, from wills, plays, sermons and religious polemic, to chests, book-bindings, reliquaries and coffins. She demonstrates how the material and imaginative possibilities of the box were dynamically connected in post-Reformation England, structuring modes of thought. These early modern responses to materiality offer ways in which the discipline of book history might reframe its analysis of the material text. In tracing the early modern significance of the box as matter and metaphor, this book reveals the origins of some of the enduring habits of thought with which we still respond to people, texts and things.

By: Lucy Razzall
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108932745
ISBN 10: 1108932746
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Chests of the Mind in Early Modern England; 2. The Renaissance of the Box: Metaphors of Interpretation; 3. The Word in a Box: Reforming the Book; 4. How to Read a Reliquary; 5. 'Because This Box We Know': Embodying the Box.

Lucy Razzall has held research and teaching positions at Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, and University College London. She has published essays on material texts and material culture in the early modern period, on subjects including relics, emblems, and print culture.