'More than Milton's Holinshed: The Phoenix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection'
This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published between 1300-1700. This collection has formed the basis of my (and Jonathan Hope's) call to return to overlooked collections as a way to incorporate new disciplinary investments in the fields of bibliography and book history including premodern critical race studies, trans* studies, gender studies as they intersect with bibliographic practice and book history.
Brandi K. Adams is assistant professor of English at Arizona State University and a member of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Her essays and reviews have been published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Survey, Cahiers Élisabéthains, and Early Theatre, and in collections including Shakespeare/Text, The Oxford Handbook for the History of the Book, Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader, and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race. She is currently editing Merry Wives of Windson with Jonathan Hope for Cambridge Shakespeare Editions, and she is writing her first monograph entitled Representations of Books and Readers in Early Modern English drama (1580-1640).
- Hosted by
- Centre for Early Modern Studies
- Venue
- Taylor A36 and Online
- Contact
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Contact Professor Karin Friedrich for the online link: k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk