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Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature Marion Orr provocativePaper and the Making of Early Modern Literature explores the crucial role of paper in the early history of books and of English literature. Taking up four paradigms of literary scholarshipauthorship, composition, form, and reuseGeorgina Wilson shows how the material affordances of paper shaped the work of readers, writers, and critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Looking past the surface of printed texts to less legible forms of labor,