Material Texts
Material Texts explores cultural technologies of communication—books, manuscripts, scrolls, films, graffiti, the actor’s voice—with particular attention to the ways specific material forms affect meaning.
Series Editors:
Roger Chartier
Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Joseph Farrell
Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Grafton
Professor of History, Princeton University
Leah Price
Professor of English, Harvard University
Peter Stallybrass
Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
Associate Professor of English, Fordham University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Walter Biggins, Editor-in-Chief
wbiggins@upenn.edu
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Engaging the Ottoman Empire
Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825534
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
496 Pages
Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict...
Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253849
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical...
The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253788
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830) as one of the most politically radical and consequential antislavery texts...
Won in Translation
Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253832
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
In Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions...
Bitstreams
The Future of Digital Literary Heritage
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224955
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts—and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading—are reduced to bitstreams, strings of digital ones and...
The Art of Allusion
Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812224849
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and...
American Contact
Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512825770
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
A Hawai’ian quilt stitched with anti-imperial messages; a Jesuit report that captures the last words of a Wendat leader; an invitation to a ball, repurposed by enslaved people in colonial Antigua;...
Fair Copy
Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253467
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
In Fair Copy Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States. In opposition to a traditional scholarly emphasis on originality...
Star Territory
Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812252927
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new...
Book Traces
Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812252682
Pub Date: February 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between...
Engaging the Ottoman Empire
Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825534
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
496 Pages
Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812253849
Pub Date: December 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253788
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Won in Translation
Textual Mobility in Early Modern Europe
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812253832
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Bitstreams
The Future of Digital Literary Heritage
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812224955
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
160 Pages
The Art of Allusion
Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812224849
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
American Contact
Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512825770
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
Fair Copy
Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253467
Pub Date: October 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Star Territory
Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812252927
Pub Date: June 2021
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Book Traces
Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780812252682
Pub Date: February 2021
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages