8 May 2024 - 8 May 2024
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Zoom
Free
In this seminar, Dr Reynolds will introduce early modern waste paper and explore its unexpected imaginative potency in the period.
Waste, Paper, and the Imagination banner
Beginning with a brief history of repurposed books, she will consider how material things - and particularly wasted things - structure thought, with particular reference to moments in the works of John Donne and Thomas Middleton. By considering the representation of waste paper in early modern literature, we discover more than the mechanics of a historical form of recycling: we encounter a widespread sensitivity to and understanding of waste that is wholly different from our own.
University Teacher in Early Modern and Renaissance Literature
Prior to working at the University of Sheffield, Anna was a lecturer at St Andrews and at York, where she completed her PhD in 2018. She has published chapters in the Oxford handbooks of Early Modern Women's Writing and the Early Modern Book, and her first monograph, Waste Paper in Early Modern England, was published with Oxford University Press last month.
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