Joshua Eckhardt, Daniel Starza Smith

Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays models and refines the study of these complicated volumes. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, it offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in the history of the book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367879907
• ISBN-10: 0367879905
• Artikelnr.: 58440808

Autorenporträt

Joshua Eckhardt is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Daniel Starza Smith is British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Before (and after) the miscellany: reconstructing Donne's Satyres in the
Conway Papers. Donne, rhapsody and textual order. Early modern
letter-books, miscellanies and the reading and reception of scribally
copied letters. The rector of Santon Downham and the hieroglyphical watch
of Prague. Unlocking the mysteries of Constance Aston Fowler's verse
miscellany (Huntington Library MS HM 904): the Hand B scribe identified.
Attribution and anonymity: Donne, Ralegh, and Fletcher in British Library,
Stowe MS 962. Copying epigrams in manuscript miscellanies. Camden's
Remaines and a pair of epideictic poetry anthologies. 'The disagreeable
figure of a common-place' in Katherine Butler's late 17th-century verse
miscellany.