Angus Vine

Miscellaneous Order

Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the connection between miscellaneity and the organization of knowledge in the early modern period and the sophisticated organizational strategies that lay behind early modern miscellanies and notebooks to offer a re-evaluation of the early modern understanding of transcription itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780198809708
• ISBN-10: 0198809700
• Artikelnr.: 54436359

Autorenporträt

Angus Vine is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Stirling. His research focuses on the literary and intellectual history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. His interests include manuscript culture, book history, textual scholarship, epistemology, antiquarianism, and editing. He is the author of In Defiance of Time: Antiquarian Writing in Early Modern England (2010, with Abigail Shinn), The Copious Text: Encyclopaedic Books in Early Modern England (2014), and (with Katie Halsey) Shakespeare and Authority: Citations, Conceptions, and Constructions (2018). He is currently editing Volume 3 of The Oxford Francis Bacon (with Richard Serjeantson) and Volume 4 of The Oxford Traherne (with Ann Moss).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Defining the Miscellany
1: Commonplace Failure
2: The Early Modern Omnigatherum
3: Chorography and Antiquarian Compilation
4: Merchants and Miscellany Making
5: Sir Hugh Plat's Network of Notebooks
6: Bacon's Filing
Coda: Whither Miscellany Culture?
Appendix: John Ramsey's 'Catalogus Authorum'
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