...Jean Balsamo The editorial process of a book's production—far from a minor material detail in its formation or an anecdotal event of publishing history—constitutes a meaningful aspect of its elaboration as a literary work, as significant as the author's biography. Indeed, book history...

... judgments, as they focus attention on the materiality of meaning, offering an unexpected perspective on the way books are consumed, defined, and catalogued. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 early modern books Passion cycle engravings Marten de Vos manual alterations cutting and pasting...

...James Kearney © by Duke University Press 2002 The Book and the Fetish: The Materiality of Prospero’s Text James Kearney Yale University...

... Moseley, and “the Book” Randall Ingram Davidson College Davidson, North Carolina Each word in the phrase “the history of the book” raises questions, even...

...Hilaire Kallendorf Scholars have for decades compared many aspects of the poetry of two contemporaneous Baroque poets, John Donne (1572–1631) and Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1640). But, oddly, no one has compared their almost simultaneous adaptations of the Old Testament Book of Lamentations. Why...

...Roland Greene This essay analyzes the figures of language and of landscape that allow Edmund Spenser to consider in an international context the virtue at the center of Book V of The Faerie Queene , justice. How, he asks, is justice projected from one society into another in an act of empire...

...Natasha Simonova In 1804, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia was described as “a book that all have heard of, that some few possess, but that nobody reads.” Indeed, the usual critical narrative has Philip Sidney’s romance falling sharply out of fashion in the eighteenth century from its height...

...Felisa Baynes-Ross Among vernacular religious manuals composed for women in the fourteenth century, Book to a Mother takes the unusual position of rejecting cloistered life for a widow's emulation and presents an alternative program of reading based on love and imitatio Christi . This essay...

...Kimberly Fonzo This article argues that the devil's appearance in chapter 59 of The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative adaptation of Legenda aurea hagiographies in which a devil takes on the guise of a woman to seduce male saints. Like a male saint, Kempe is tempted with a sexual spectacle...

...Michael Cornett © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina...

...Michael Cornett © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina...

...Michael Cornett © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina...

...Michael Cornett © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina...

...Michael Cornett a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina “New Books across the Disciplines...

...Michael Cornett © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina...

...Michael Cornett © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina “New...

...Michael Cornett © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 a New Books across the Disciplines Michael Cornett Duke University Durham, North Carolina “New...