Erin A McCarthy

Doubtful Readers

Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the print publication of early modern English poetry books that shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198836476
• ISBN-10: 0198836473
• Artikelnr.: 57468776

Autorenporträt

Erin A. McCarthy is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, material texts, the history of reading, and women's writing. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project 'RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700' at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This research will be the basis of a monograph jointly authored with Marie-Louise Coolahan and Sajed Chowdhury.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. The Early Modern Poetry Book as an Expressive Form
* 1: Reading Printed Poetry in Early Modern England
* 2: Typography, Genre, and Authorship in The Passionate Pilgrim
(1599) and Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)
* 3: Selling the Illusion of Access: Readers and Multiple Dedications
in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
* 4: Poems, by J.D. (1633 and 1635), the O'Flahertie Manuscript, and
the Many Careers of John Donne
* 5: 'Nor is the Printing of such Miscellanies . . . unpresidented':
Poetic Authorship after Poems, by J.D. (1635)
* Conclusion. 'an ambition to be in print'