Dan S. Collins lecture with Adam Smyth, Balliol College, University of Oxford: "Beyond the Book: Recycling Print in Early Modern England"

Date and Time

April 25, 2024
04:30PM - 04:30PM EDT

Location

Old Chapel, 144 Hicks Way, UMass Amherst (Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies)

Adam Smyth's research focuses on the ways texts are composed, circulated, and consumed; and the connections between literature and the history of the book. He has written three monographs – Material Texts in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2018), runner-up in the SHARP DeLong Book History Prize; Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Profit and Delight: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640–1682 (Wayne State University Press, 2004).

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