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Full Description
This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from the eighteenth century) to describe ostensibly disposable print? In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—when objects and texts were rapidly proliferating—the term began to acquire its modern association with transitoriness. But contributors to this volume show how ephemera was also integrally related to wider social and cultural ecosystems. Chapters explore those ecosystems and think about the papers and artefacts that shaped homes, streets, and cities or towns and their attendant preservation, loss, or transformation. The studies here therefore look beyond static records to think about moments of process and transmutation and accordingly get closer to early modern experiences, identities, and practices.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Biographies
introduction/ spawning
concepts/ emerging
Megan Heffernan, Expired Time: Archiving Waste Manuscripts
Anna Reynolds, What do Texts and Insects have in Common?; or, Ephemerality before Ephemera
Bruce Boehrer, Time's Flies: Ephemerality in the Early Modern Insect World
Robert Bearman, What is an 'ephemeral archive'? Stratford-upon-Avon, 1550-1650: a case study
Alison Wiggins, Paper and Elite Ephemerality
matter/ metamorphosing
Elaine Leong, Recipes and Paper Knowledge
Katherine Hunt, More lasting than bronze: statues, writing, and the materials of ephemera in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall
Hannah Lilley, Uncovering Ephemeral Practice: Itineraries of Black Ink and the Experiments of Thomas Davis
Helen Smith, Things That Last: Ephemerality and Endurance in Early Modern England
environments/ buzzing
Michael Lewis, Toy Coach from London
Jemima Matthews, Maritime Ephemera in Walter Mountfort's The Launching of the Mary
Callan Davies, Playing Apples and the Playhouse Archive
William Tullet, Extensive Ephemera: Perfumer's Trade Cards in Eighteenth-Century England
