'My purse is turnd downeward': Print and precarity in late-Elizabethan England

这篇论文提供了一部关于早期现代文学早熟的新历史，既是处于历史位置的，也是与当今文化领域的不确定性对话的。受最近关于合作网络作为21世纪对艺术中早熟现象的回应的作用的学术研究的启发，它将回顾16世纪早期现代作家、印刷商和出版商如何建立创造性的、创新的支持网络，以减轻他们职业的波动性。它还将探索早期现代印刷厂开创的独特合作形式如何与当今的独立艺术家、音乐家和作家对话。

Offering a new history of early modern literary precarity, this thesis will be both historically situated and inconversation with the uncertainties of today's cultural sector. Inspired by recent scholarship on the role of thecollaborative network as a 21st-century response to precarity in the arts, it will recover how early modernwriters, printers and publishers in the 16th-century built creative, innovative networks of support to mitigatethe volatility of their profession. It will also explore how the distinctive forms of collaboration pioneered in theearly modern print-house might speak to today's independent artists, musicians and writers.