Literary Form After Matter 1550–1700

About the Author

Katherine Hunt is Lecturer in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature at the University of East Anglia. Her work has been widely published in edited collections and journals including English Literary Renaissance and Renaissance Studies, and she is completing a book about bronze, writing, and processes of making in early modern English literature. Dianne Mitchell is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her book Paper Intimacies in the Early Modern Lyric (2026) explores the strange forms of closeness that emerge at the intersections of poetic form and Renaissance manuscript culture. She has published articles in Modern Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, English Literary Renaissance, and Studies in Philology as well as essays on gender and material culture in several recent collections.