Introduction / Helen Smith and Louise Wilson; Part I. Orders of the Book: 1. 'Imprinted by Simeon such a signe': reading early modern imprints / Helen Smith; 2. 'Intended to offenders': the running titles of early modern books / Matthew Day; 3. Changed opinion as to flowers / Juliet Fleming; 4. The beginning of 'The End': terminal paratext and the birth of print culture / William H. Sherman; Part II. Making Readers: 5. Editorial pledges in early modern dramatic paratexts / Sonia Massai; 6. Status anxiety and English Renaissance translation / Neil Rhodes; 7. Playful paratexts: the front matter of Anthony Munday's Iberian Romance translations / Louise Wilson; 8. 'Signifying, but not sounding': gender and paratext in the complaint genre / Danielle Clarke; Part III. Books and Users: 9. Unannotating Spenser / Jason Scott-Warren; 10. Reading the home: the case of The English Housewife / Wendy Wall; 11. Pictures, places and spaces: Sidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the Songe de Poliphile / Hester Lees-Jeffries; Afterword Peter Stallybrass; Select bibliography
Renaissance paratexts. ISBN 9780521117395. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.