William E. Engel

The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History

John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnical cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Early Modern Authorship
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781032223988
• ISBN-10: 1032223987
• Artikelnr.: 69793316

Autorenporträt

William E. Engel is the Nick B. Williams Professor of English at The University of the South: Sewanee. He has published seven books on literary history and applied emblematics, two previously with Routledge, Chiastic Designs (2016) and Early Modern Poetics (2016), and has contributed chapters to several Routledge volumes, including The Birth and Death of the Author (2020), The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory (2017), and Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Incarnating Ideas
1 The deluxe design of The Cosmographical Glass (1559)
2 Renovating the Catechism (1553) and Metrical Psalms (1562)
3 The grand enterprise of Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563)
4 Underwriting England's first Protestant emblem book (1568)
5 The compelling visuality of Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book (1569, 1578)
Conclusion: Making History