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Vibrant Material Textuality: New Materialism, Book History, and the Archive in Paper
- Author(s):
- Jonathan Senchyne (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- LLC 19th-Century American, LLC Early American, TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography, TM Libraries and Research
- Subject(s):
- Materialism, Sociology, Books, History, Archives--Study and teaching, Printing--Social aspects
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Washington Irving, Anne Bradstreet, The Adventures of a Quire of Paper, Old Ream Wrappers, Henk Voorn, Material textuality, New materialism, Book history, Archival studies, Print culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6SF2MB4C
- Abstract:
- I look to the ways material text studies might be prompted by, and improve upon, thinking in new materialism. The result is that paper could be read for how histories and narratives seep into the paper record and require accounts of agentic materiality lest they be lost or muted. In what follows, I use stories about rag paper as points of departure for thinking about the material turn in both contemporary theoretical discourse and book history together. Both, I think, attempt to understand the meanings and effects of material actors. Taken together, however, they can provide greater insight into the meanings of texts as objects, and a more complete sense of what is in our archives. Finally, I argue that book history’s disciplinary habits of moving between a text’s material presence, or bibliographic code, and its linguistic code, might provide a model for literary critics pondering current theoretical work in new materialism and the agency of things.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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