Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature av Jonathan (Walter J. Ong SJ Chair in the Humanities Department of English Walter J.

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Blanks, Print, Space, and Void in English Renaissance Literature is an inquiry into the empty spaces encountered not just on the pages of printed books in c.1500-1700, but in Renaissance culture more generally. The book argues that print culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries helped to foster the modern idea of the ''gap'' (where words, texts, images, and ideas are constructed as missing, lost, withheld, fragmented, or perhaps never devised in thefirst place). It re-imagines how early modern people reacted not just to printed books and documents of many different kinds, but also how the very idea of emptiness or absence began to be fashioned in a way which still surrounds us. Jonathan Sawday leads the reader through the entire landscape of early modern print culture, discussing topics such as: space and silence; the exploration of the vacuum; the ways in which race and racial identity in early modern England were constructed by the language and technology of print; blacknes