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"Tattoos, graffiti, pots, poesy rings, and inscriptions on clothes and on implements were all significant and meaningful forms of writing in early modern England. In this beautifully packaged and engaging book Juliet Fleming argues that these modes of writing . . . were central to consciousness and to the idea of writing. . . . Her book succeeds—as a challenge to our understating of the practices of writing and the notion of literature—because of its originality, its restless interrogation of words well beyond the realms of the canonical, its brilliantly imaginative approach to cultural history, and because of its well-proportioned, elegant, and dense prose."—Albion"Through stunningly imaginative acts of archaeological and archival retrieval, Juliet Fleming has given us the keenest account we have of what distinguishes early modern writing from our own."—Margreta de Grazia, University of Pennsylvania
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England is an excavation of a series of previously unknown or disregarded writing practices. Our modern assumptions regarding written expression have limited our examination of the history of writing and literacy to that which has been preserved in print or manuscript. In a work of tremendous originality and intellectual daring, Fleming brings detailed historical ...