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Juliet
Fleming.
Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England.
London: Reaktion
Books, 2001.
224pp.
Hardback ISBN
1861890893.
Publisher's
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This book
investigates
writing practices such as graffiti, tattooing and inscriptions on
implements,
jewellery, clothing and other objects in early modern England. The
incidence
of graffiti in this period has never been documented as such; the
occurrence
of tattooing has been unknown; inscribed objects, though often
carefully
preserved, are not usually considered as literary works.
These
are writing
practices that invite us to imagine a world in which writing and
drawing
were not fully distinguishable, the page was not an important boundary,
and modern assumptions as to what constitutes literacy, either in
writing
or in reading, were irrelevant. Julia Fleming's exploration of these
virtually
unknown literary artefacts provides a startling new perspective on
sixteenth-century
culture, one that requires us to re-examine what we thought we knew
about
writing, literature and their history in England.
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