Michelle O'Callaghan (University of Reading)

Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England

Early Modern Cultures of Recreation

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of how poetry was collected in anthologies in Renaissance England reads canonical authors - Surrey, Spenser, and Sidney - alongside women and non-elite writers. Designed for English literature students, its innovative focus on the crafted book and recreation will also interest students of early modern history, book history, and musicology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781108491099
• ISBN-10: 110849109X
• Artikelnr.: 59984693

Autorenporträt

Michelle O'Callaghan is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture and director of the Early Modern Research Centre at the University of Reading. Her books include The Shepheards Nation: Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture, 1612-1625 (2000), The English Wits: Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England (2007) and Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Books in process: Songes and Sonettes and Paradyse of Daynty devises
2. Household books: Richard Jones, Isabella Whitney and anthology-making
3. 'To the Gentleman Reader': recreating Sidney in the 1590s
4. 'Impos'd designe': Englands Helicon and re-creative craft
5. A Poetical Rapsody: Francis Davison, the 'Printer', and the craft of compilation
Conclusion.