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The History of the Chapter Helen Smith
Event details
What is the history of chapters?
When did ‘chapter’ come to mean a section or subdivision of a book?
And what have authors done with the creative possibilities of the subsection, the chapter title or the book as a sum of its parts?
Join Professor Helen Smith, of the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, for a fun and fast-paced tour of chapters past, present and future.
This is a YouTube Premiere event. You’ll be sent a link to the screening a few days before it takes place, as well as a reminder an hour before. You can ask the speaker your questions live in the YouTube chat throughout the stream and for 15 minutes afterwards. To continue to chat after the premiere has ended, you will need to deny the automatic play of the next video on YouTube.
About the speaker
Helen Smith is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She is especially interested in how books are made and used, and has been building a replica printing press as part of her research. She is the author of Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2012), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Literature Prize by the Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference, and the DeLong Book History Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.
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