Contact details
- Name:
- Michael Durrant
- Position:
- Lecturer in Book History
- Institute:
- Institute of English Studies
- Location:
- The Institute of English Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House London WC1E 7HU
- Email address:
- michael.durrant@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-michael-durrant
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Early Modern, English Literature, History, History of the book, Library
- Regions:
- England, United Kingdom
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Michael Durrant is a Lecturer in Book History, with a particular focus on the English book trade in the early modern period. His first monograph explores the lives and afterlives of the seventeenth-century printer, Henry Hills, and the place of the printer figure in the early/modern imaginary. Elsewhere, he has written on Protestant devotion and book use, users manuscript modifications of printed pages, the creative functions of the printers' device, printed waste and unnatested books, and, more recently, the queer potentials of early modern material texts. Michael has also been involved in interdisciplinary research into the role of secrecy and trust in Shakespeare's writings, particularly his sonnets.
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-Apr-2025 “I lie with her and she with me” Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Pleasures of Distrust Chapters
In, Early Modern Bonds of Trust: From Shakespeare to Milton, ed. by Joseph Sterrett, Alison Findley, and Helen Wilcox (London: Bloomsbury, 2025)
01-Mar-2025 The Queer Lives of The Life of H.H. (1822, 1688, 1650-51) Journal articles
In Journal of Early Modern Studies, special issue: 'The Politics of Book History: Then and Now', ed. by Zachary Lesser and Georgina WIlson (March, 2025).
01-Sep-2024 The Remedy of Loue (1584): An Unattested Printed Text Found in the Binding of a Chester Court-Book Journal articles
The Library 25:3 (2024), 325-67
01-Sep-2023 The Goddæuses' Dürer-Inspired Trademark: The Meanings, Origins, and Strategic Uses of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Printer's Device Journal articles
In Book History 26:2 (2023), 274-294
01-May-2023 John Harris: From Stage Business to Page Business Chapters
In The People of Print: Seventeenth Century England, ed. by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, and Adam James Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
01-Sep-2021 Simmel and Shakespeare on Lying and Love Journal articles
In Cultural Sociology 15:3 (2021), 346-363
01-Sep-2020 Old Books, New Beginnings: Recovering Lost Pages Journal articles
In Inscription: The Journal of the Material Text - Theory, Practice, Criticism Issue 1 (2020),
01-Sep-2020 ‘HERSCHEPT HET HERT’: Katherine Sutton’s Experiences (1663), the Printer’s Device and the Making of Devotion Chapters
In People and Piety: Protestant Devotional Identities in Early Modern England, ed. by Elizabeth Clarke and Robert Daniel (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)
26-Oct-2018 “Unseen but very evident”: Ghosts, Hauntings, and the Civil War Past Chapters
In From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past, ed. by Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie (London: Routledge, 2018)
01-Sep-2018 Henry Hills and the Tailor’s Wife Adultery and Hypocrisy in the Archive Chapters
In Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England, ed. by Lucia Nigri and Naya Tsentourou (London and New York: Routledge, 2018)
02-Jan-2018 ‘Who hears or reads of That, shall publish Thee‘: Print, Transmission, and the King’s Book Journal articles
- Research Projects & Supervisions
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Research projects:
Details The Mount Street Catalogues: Reconstructing a Nineteenth-Century Jesuit Library Available for doctoral supervision: Yes
- Relevant Events
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Other editing/publishing activities:
Knowledge transfer activities:
Details Shakespeare’s First Folio: A Moving Monument - Consultancy & Media
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- Available for consultancy:
- Yes
- Media experience:
- Yes