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b'You\\u2019ve heard of landscapes and seascapes, but have you ever\\xa0head\\xa0of\\xa0bookscapes?\\xa0Today\\u2019s researcher investigates the history of reading and attempts to unravel the complex relationship\\xa0between women and written text in Early Modern Britain.\\xa0Dr. Leah Knight from the Department of English\\xa0Language and Literature\\xa0spoke with us about textual culture and her\\xa0digital project featuring the unpublished manuscript of 17th\\xa0century poet\\xa0Hester\\xa0Pulter.\\nDr. Knight studies early modern English poetry, prose, and the culture they emerge from. She\\u2019s authored two books,\\xa0Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England\\xa0and\\xa0Reading Green in Early Modern England, which were both awarded the annual book prize of the British Society for Literature and Science.\\xa0\\nMore recently,\\xa0Dr. Knight has been investigating the history of reading, examining the evidence of reading materials, habits, and experiences associated with Anne Clifford (1590-1676).\\xa0\\nShe has also turned to the long-neglected manuscripts of the poet Hester\\xa0Pulter\\xa0(1605-1678)\\xa0and has launched a digital project with Dr. Wendy Wall of Northwestern University\\xa0that was selected as the year\\u2019s best project in digital scholarship by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender in 2018.\\xa0\\xa0\\nFind a full transcript at\\xa0https://brocku.ca/humanities/foreword\\nLinks\\nOf Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture\\xa0(Routledge, 2009)\\xa0\\nReading Green in Early Modern\\xa0England\\xa0(Routledge, 2014)\\nWomen\\u2019s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain: Reading, Ownership, Circulation\\xa0(University of Michigan Press, 2018; edited with\\xa0Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer)\\nThe Pulter\\xa0Project: Poet in the Making\\xa0(\\xa0co-directed and -edited with Wendy Wall, 2018)\\nDigital project gives voice to 17th century female poet (Brock News, 19 November 2018)\\nLeah Knight\\xa0faculty profile\\nDepartment of English Language & Literature\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nCredits\\nWe love to hear from our listeners! Join us on\\xa0Twitter,\\xa0Facebook, and\\xa0Instagram\\xa0@brockhumanities.\\nPlease subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don\\u2019t miss an episode.\\nLearn more about the Faculty of Humanities, including our events, programs of study, and departments,\\xa0online.\\nForeword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.\\nSound design and editing by\\xa0Serena Atallah. Theme music is by\\xa0Khalid Imam.\\nSpecial thanks to Brock University\\u2019s MakerSpace and Brock University Marketing and Communications for studio and web support.\\nThis podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.'