Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

introduction : Aesthetic mystery and the materialities of the written -- Wax and parchment : the poems of Baudri de Bourgueil -- Writing and memory : Cardenio's Librillo -- The press and fonts : Don Quixote in the print shop -- Handwritten newsleters, printed gazettes : cymbal and butter -- Talking books and clandestine manuscripts : the travels of Dyrcona -- Text and fabric : Anzoletto and Philomena -- Commerce in the novel : Damilaville's tears and the impatient reader -- Epilogue : Diderot and his pirates.