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In his 1987 work Paratexts, the theorist Gérard Genette established physical form as crucial to the production of meaning. Here, experts in early modern book history, materiality and rhetorical culture present a series of compelling explorations of the architecture of early modern books. The essays challenge and extend Genette's taxonomy, exploring the paratext as both a material and a conceptual category. Renaissance Paratexts takes a fresh look at neglected sites, from imprints to endings, and from running titles to printers' flowers. Contributors' accounts of the making and circulation of books open up questions of the marking of gender, the politics of translation, geographies of the text and the interplay between reading and seeing. As much a history of misreading as of interpretation, the collection provides novel perspectives on the technologies of reading and exposes the complexity of the playful, proliferating and self-aware paratexts of English Renaissance books.

Literature --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 001.81 --- 82.08 --- 82:659.3 --- 659.3 --- Techniek van de intellectuele arbeid --- Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- Mass communication. Informing, enlightening of the public at large --- 659.3 Mass communication. Informing, enlightening of the public at large --- 82:659.3 Literatuur en massacommunicatie --- 82.08 Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- 001.81 Techniek van de intellectuele arbeid --- European literature --- Paratext --- Books --- History and criticism --- Paratext. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities