List of Figures Acknowledgements Series Editors' Preface 1. Introduction: Close Reading Form and Matter Katherine Hunt and Dianne Mitchell Part I. Embodying Form and Matter 2. 'Perfection in a Womans worke is rare': Mary Oxlie's Poetic Life Elizabeth Scott-Baumann 3. Transmaterialities and Transformations in John Lyly's The Woman in the Moon Gillian Knoll 4. 'I write this in an Alehouse': The Engraved Title Page of Sir William Cornwallis's Essayes (1632) and the Making of the Early Modern Essay Sophie Butler 5. Travel Writing, Textiles, and Things Natalya Din-Kariuki 6. Forms of Reading Crip Time: Look About You and Jjjjjerome Ellis's transCRIPted (2020) Katherine Schaap Williams Part II.

Attention and Obstruction 7. 'I / Will petrify: Queering Influence in Early Modern Lyric Gabriel Bloomfield 8. Robert Hooke's Literary Point Whitney Sperrazza 9. Poetic Freedom and the Stakes of Close Reading: Hester Pulter's 'Solitary Complaint' Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich 10. 'Let it be the thought': Lancelot Andrewes, William James, Charles Sanders Peirce Esther Osorio Whewell 11. 'Flye into thistles Tharsis': Material Spirituality in the Poetry of Lady Anne Southwell Danielle Clarke 12. Forming Beauty in Shake-speares Sonnets L. Bellee Jones-Pierce Part III.

Effaced and Enduring Forms 13. The Affordability of Matter: Access, Equity, and Digital Technology Hannah August 14. Lost Letters, Found Forms: Reading Library Fragments Megan Heffernan 15. A Common Matter? The Manuscript of Robert Hassall Douglas Clark 16. Historical Views and Spenserian Form: A View of the Present State of Ireland in Time and Matter Ali Madani 17. Idols of the Cave: Voices and Texts in Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia Thomas Ward 18. 'Disjointed by Candle-Light' Alice Wickenden 19. 'Their first matter': Pasteboard Giants in Early Modern Writing Lucy Razzall 20.

Afterword Adam Smyth Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index.