A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts

A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
Ed.: Jones, Edward

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.

Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance
Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare s Titus Andronicus
Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion and literary history
Announces the recovery of archival documents, which in some instances are over four hundred years old
Places translations of Milton s Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars
Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s

Produktdetails

• Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781118635292
• ISBN-10: 1118635299
• Artikelnr.: 42103899

Autorenporträt

Edward Jones is a Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and the Editor of Milton Quarterly. His research interests centre on seventeenth-century archival records created by the English state, church, and parish and how such documents inform the life and writings of John Milton. Book-length publications include Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 and, Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642. A selection of his essays can be found in RES, JEGP, A Concise Companion to Milton, The Oxford Handbook of Milton, and Milton in Context.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiv Introduction xv Edward Jones
Part I Manuscript Studies 1 1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript:
Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3 Elaine Treharne 2 Texts
Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21 Sarah Knight 3
Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of
Eton, c.1624 41 William Poole 4 Young Milton in His Letters 66 John K. Hale
5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87 Edward
Jones 6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of
Friendship 106 Cedric C. Brown Part II Printed Books 129 7 Printing the
Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131 Neil Harris 8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy
in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150 Karen L. Edwards 9 The Earliest
Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171 Thomas N. Corns 10 The Ghost
of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188 Jameela Lares
Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207 11 Misprinting
Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209 John Creaser 12
Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229 N.H.
Keeble 13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249 Martin Dzelzainis 14 Did Milton
Read Selden? 266 Sharon Achinstein 15 Hands On 294 Neil Forsyth 16
Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus
Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322
Pascale Aebischer By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346
Andrew McNeillie Index 354

Rezensionen

"A valuable set of essays by major scholars analyzing reading, writing, and transmission practices as they pertain to Early Modern English manuscripts and printed books. The essays illustrate general principles by close examination of a particular text, including several by Milton and Shakespeare." Barbara Lewalski, Harvard University