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Adam Smyth is Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford. He works on the intersection of the literary and the material, the archival and the canonical, particularly (but not exclusively) in the early modern period. His most recent book is Material Texts in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2018), which explores the inventive materiality of early modern texts, and the remarkable things readers did to books in the name of reading (cutting, pasting, annotating, burning). Other books include Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Profit and Delight: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682 (Wayne State University Press, 2004); A History of English Autobiography (edited, Cambridge University Press, 2016); Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (edited with Gill Partington, Palgrave, 2014); and A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England (edited, Boydell and Brewer, 2004). Adam Smyth is the co-editor of Routledge's book series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture. He also enjoys discussing his work beyond the academy: he writes regularly for the London Review of Books, and has appeared on TV and radio in the UK and abroad. Adam Smyth is the co-host of the literary discussion podcast and radio show, Litbits.
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    • The Book-Makers

    • A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
    • Written by: Adam Smyth
    • Narrated by: Adam Smyth
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-28
    • Language: English
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