Textual Transformations

Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Herausgeber: Whitehouse, Tessa; Keeble, N H

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Produktbeschreibung

An edited collection that studies the making of books in the long eighteenth century and advances understanding of book production and reception from a literary-historical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808817
• ISBN-10: 019880881X
• Artikelnr.: 58445042

Autorenporträt

Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 (2015) and essays on aspects of nonconformist literary culture. She has contributed chapters to several major collections: one on spiritual autobiography for A History of English Autobiography (2016), another on dissenters' print culture for the Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (2018), and one for A History of Dissenting Academies in the British Isles 1660-1860 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), edited by Isabel Rivers. N. H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus of English Studies at the University of Stirling. His academic and research interests lie in English literary and religious history of the period 1500-1725. His publications include studies of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (Clarendon Press, 1982), The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later seventeenth-century England (Leicester University Press, 1987), The Restoration: England in the 1660s (Blackwell, 2002) and (with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (Clarendon Press, 1991). He has edited four collections of original essays, texts by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Lucy Hutchinson, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and (with John Coffey, Tim Cooper, and Thomas Charlton) Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I. Production and Dissemination
* 1: James Raven: Transforming the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: John
Nourse and his Bookshops on the Strand
* 2: Tessa Whitehouse: Friendship and Eighteen-Century Nonconformist
Memorial Publication
* 3: Thomas Keymer: Manuscript in the House of Print: Richardson and
Media Shift after 1700
* 4: Christopher Reid: Unitarian Activism and the Politics of the
Subscription Library: Bury St. Edmunds in the 1790s
* Part II. Authorship and Editing
* 5: Neil Keeble: Attempting to Transform Public Opinion: The
Publishing Career of Richard Baxter, 1662-96
* 6: Rosemary Dixon: Authorship and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century
Collected Works: The Case of John Tillotson
* 7: Abigail Williams: Remaking Verse in the Eighteenth-Century Poetic
Miscellany
* 8: Michael F. Suarez, S. J.: In Good Company: The Business of
Abridgments in Eighteenth-Century England
* Part III. Reception
* 9: Mark Burden: Editing Shadows: The Changing Text of Lucy
Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson
* 10: Scott Mandelbrote: 'Generous men will spare the memory of the
dead': The Posthumous Publication of Writings by Thomas Burnet
* 11: Simon Mills: Reading Henry Maundrell's Sacred Geography in
Eighteenth-Century England and Germany
* 12: James Vigus: Coleridge's Shakespearean Transformation of
Schiller's Wallenstein Plays