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Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne |
Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019. |
Earle Havens |
30 Jan 2019 |
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Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy |
Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. |
Alan Stahl |
23 Feb 2018 |
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The Paratexts of Conrad Gessner |
Professor Ann Blair on the uses of dedication and the multifarious paratexts of the early modern naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Gessner (1516-65) |
Dennis Duncan, Ann Blair |
03 Aug 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Modernist Marginalia |
Dr Amanda Golden discusses the notes and underlinings that writers like Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath made in their books. |
Dennis Duncan, Amanda Golden |
13 Jul 2016 |
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Modernist Prefaces |
Dr Sarah Copland on how Modernist writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad used the form of the Preface as a key to their own work, as well as the work of others. |
Dennis Duncan, Sarah Copland |
06 Jun 2016 |
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"To the Reader" Epistles |
Dr Meaghan Brown discusses the early modern To the Reader epistle, in which publishers directly addressed their buying public. |
Dennis Duncan, Meaghan Brown |
24 May 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-1900 |
Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles. |
Henry Woudhuysen, Adam Smyth |
19 Jun 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
The History of Oxford University Press |
Adam Smyth is joined by Professor Ian Gadd to discuss his just-published collection on the history of OUP. |
Adam Smyth, Ian Gadd |
17 Mar 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Early modern plays in bits and pieces |
Professor Tiffany Stern joins Dr Adam Smyth to discuss her current research on the materiality of the early modern play text. What happens to our thinking about plays when prologues, epilogues and songs become mobile pieces, detached from the whole? |
Tiffany Stern, Adam Smyth |
03 Feb 2014 |
