reading habitats in renaissance england: towards an ecology of the book
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Shakespearean Forensics
44th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America Plenary Session ~ New Orleans, LA ~ March 25, 2016
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Reading Habitats in Renaissance England
Toward an Ecology of the BookJoshua Calhoun
Department of English University of Wisconsin
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“Sizing” (also, “animal sizing,” “gelatin sizing,” “surface sizing,” etc.)
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“A material added to a paper to change its resistance to the
penetration of liquids…”Source: Timothy Barrett, et al,
Paper Through Time: Nondestructive Analysis of 14th- through 19th-Century Papers
paper.lib.uiowa.edu
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FALSTAFF:
…And you may know by my sizethat I have a kind of alacrity in sinking…
MWW 3.5.10-11
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www.folgerdigitaltexts.org
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Goya, Duel with Cudgels, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
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Three QuestionsHow has scarcity of nonhuman matter altered human communication?
How have humans creatively imagined or reimagined the textual possibilities available to them in a given ecosystem?
How has the corruptibility of nonhuman matter used to make texts altered human discourse?
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Three QuestionsHow has scarcity of nonhuman matter altered human communication?
How have humans creatively imagined or reimagined the textual possibilities available to them in a given ecosystem?
How has the corruptibility of nonhuman matter used to make texts altered human discourse?
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ScarcityCorruptibility
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