Review of Heidi Brayman Hackel. Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy.(Book review)

Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Matthew Steggle

Heidi Brayman Hackel. Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. xii+322pp. ISBN 521 84251 4.

Emily Smith

Emory University

ebowles@learnlink.emory.edu

Smith, Emily. "Review of Heidi Brayman Hackel, Reading Material in Early Modern England: Print, Gender, and Literacy." Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 10.1-7 .

Because of our own embedment in a culture of technological overlap, where print publication and web-based publication coexist and compete with one another, the overlapping of manuscript and print during the early modern period has proven to be a rich avenue of inquiry for scholars. Margaret J. M. Ezell's Social Authorship and the Advent of Print and George Justice and Nathan Tinker's Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800 map out many of the similar energies and anxieties surrounding these publishing technologies for early modern writers and for twenty-first century writers. Their works address questions relevant to readers, contributors, and the network of scholars otherwise invested in an online academic journal like EMLS. They ask whether digital or web-based publication possesses the same degree of authority as print-based publication, and...

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