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Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen´s Receipt Books
Kristine Kowalchuk
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Description for Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen´s Receipt Books
Paperback. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Series: Studies in Book & Print Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSB; HBT; MBX; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and ointment of roses. Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. These texts played an important role in the history of women's writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book ... Read more
Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and ointment of roses. Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. These texts played an important role in the history of women's writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies in Book & Print Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781487520038
SKU
V9781487520038
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Ref
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About Kristine Kowalchuk
Kristine Kowalchuk is an instructor of critical reading and writing at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Reviews for Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen´s Receipt Books
'These remarkable 17th century books invite us to consider which forms of writing are actually woven into the fabric of how we live, and who is producing them.'
Eugenia Zuroski Literary Review of Canada May 2017
Eugenia Zuroski Literary Review of Canada May 2017