Grossly Material Things by Helen Smith HARDBACK 9780199651580

Helen Smith

Grossly Material Things\nby Helen Smith\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Helen Smith\nTitle: Grossly Material Things\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780199651580\nISBN-10: 0199651582\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn A Room of One''s Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as ''grossly material things'', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf''s brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It charts a new history of making and use, recovering the ways in which women shaped and altered the books of this crucial pe.