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Description for Into Print
Hardback. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 20. Weight in Grams: 549.
This book examines the role that book production played in shaping notions of female authorship in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France. Through close analysis of volumes attributed to Helisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé, la Dame des Roches, and Marie de Gournay against the historical backdrop of the early French book market, Chang shows how the female author acts as a figure who often has diverse functions and meanings, in printed books of the period. Focusing on how the female author’s gender, authority, and appeal are crafted in the creation of the material volume, Into Print shows how the production of ... Read more
This book examines the role that book production played in shaping notions of female authorship in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France. Through close analysis of volumes attributed to Helisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé, la Dame des Roches, and Marie de Gournay against the historical backdrop of the early French book market, Chang shows how the female author acts as a figure who often has diverse functions and meanings, in printed books of the period. Focusing on how the female author’s gender, authority, and appeal are crafted in the creation of the material volume, Into Print shows how the production of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611491135
SKU
V9781611491135
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Ref
99-15
About Leah L. Chang
Leah L. Chang is assistant professor of French at the George Washington University.
Reviews for Into Print
One comes to the end of the book with a rich appreciation of the strategic interest, for early modern printers as for writers, of producing a female-authored text. Chang's research is deep and meticulously presented…. Leah Chang's book is…an extraordinary accomplishment. It fixes our attention on the multiple ways in which the interactions between author, printer, editor, and ... Read more