Renaissance Paratexts

Herausgeber: Smith, Helen; Wilson, Louise

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A stimulating collection which explores both the material and the conceptual worlds of the early modern book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117395
• ISBN-10: 0521117399
• Artikelnr.: 32955479

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Helen Smith and Louise Wilson; Part I. Orders of the Book: 1.
'Imprinted by Simeon such a signe': reading early modern imprints Helen
Smith; 2. 'Intended to offenders': the running titles of early modern books
Matthew Day; 3. Changed opinion as to flowers Juliet Fleming; 4. The
beginning of 'The End': terminal paratext and the birth of print culture
William H. Sherman; Part II. Making Readers: 5. Editorial pledges in early
modern dramatic paratexts Sonia Massai; 6. Status anxiety and English
Renaissance translation Neil Rhodes; 7. Playful paratexts: the front matter
of Anthony Munday's Iberian Romance translations Louise Wilson; 8.
'Signifying, but not sounding': gender and paratext in the complaint genre
Danielle Clarke; Part III. Books and Users: 9. Unannotating Spenser Jason
Scott-Warren; 10. Reading the home: the case of The English Housewife Wendy
Wall; 11. Pictures, places and spaces: Sidney, Wroth, Wilton House and the
Songe de Poliphile Hester Lees-Jeffries; Afterword Peter Stallybrass;
Select bibliography.