This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.

Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century cul

Studies in Ephemera: Text and Image in Eighteenth-Century Print bringstogether established and emerging scholars of early modern print culture to explore the dy

During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumptio

Roger Chartier examines how authors transformed the material realities of writing or of publication into an aesthetic resource exploited for poetic, dramatic, o