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Author Broomhall, Susan, author.

Title Women and the book trade in sixteenth-century France / Susan Broomhall
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Women and gender in the early modern world
Women and gender in the early modern world.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Text; Introduction; Contexts of Female Publication; 1 Women's Experiences as Readers, Owners and Collectors of Books; 2 Women Working in the Book Trades; 3 Women Publishing: Theoretical and Practical Contexts; 4 The Struggle for Textual Control: Female Authors in Print; Strategies of Female Publication; 5 Dynamic Boundaries: Social Status, Geography and Gender in Publication; 6 Domestic Speech: Rhetorical Strategies of Family and Household; 7 In the Margins: Gender, Textual Relation and Location
ConclusionsAppendix: A Checklist of First and Significant Editions; Bibliography; Index
Summary Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes and understanding of publication. Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript circulation gave way to the printed book as a standard form of publication. Innovatively, she broadens the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. She challenges the existing view that manuscript offered a "safe" means of semi-public exposure for female authors and explores its continuing presence after the introduction of print. The study introduces a wide and rich range of unexamined sources on early modern women, using an extensive range of manuscripts and the entire corpus of women's printed texts in sixteenth-century France. Most of the original texts, uncovered during the author's own extensive archival and bibliographical research, have never been re-published in modern French. Most of the citations from them are here translated into English for the first time. The work presents the only checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts, from prefaces and laudatory verse to editions of prose and poetry, between 1488 and 1599. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of women's contribution to contemporary publishing yet available. Broomhall's innovative approach and her conclusions have relevance not only for book historians and French historians, but for a broad range of scholars who work with other European literatures and histories, as well as women's studies
Notes Originally published 2002 by Ashgate Publishing. Reissued 2018 by Routledge
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Dec. 19, 2018)
Subject Women in the book industries and trade -- France -- History -- 16th century
Women and literature -- France -- History -- 16th century
Women printers -- France -- History -- 16th century
Women booksellers -- France -- History -- 16th century
Women publishers -- France -- History -- 16th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
Manners and customs
Women and literature
Women booksellers
Women in the book industries and trade
Women printers
Women publishers
Buchhandel
Frau
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Vrouwen.
SUBJECT France -- Social life and customs -- 1328-1600. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051502
Subject France
Frankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315233833
1315233835
9781351872232
1351872230