Emma Smith

The Elizabethan Top Ten

Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England
Herausgeber: Kesson, Andy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout, the aim is to unpack assumptions about the popular, revealing a literary England in which almanacs and proclamations outweigh sonnets and plays, and authors familiar to us are displaced by names now often forgotten.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367879068
• ISBN-10: 0367879069
• Artikelnr.: 58439374

Autorenporträt

Andy Kesson is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. Emma Smith is Fellow and Tutor in English at Hertford College, Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Methodologies: What is print popularity? A map of the Elizabethan
book trade. 'O read me for I am of great antiquity': old books and
Elizabethan popularity. 'Rare poems ask rare friends': popularity and
collecting in Elizabethan England. Shakespeare's popularity and the origins
of the canon. Part 2 The Elizabethan Top Ten: Almanacs and ideas of
popularity Print, popularity and the Book of Common Prayer. International
news pamphlets. Spenser's popular intertexts. Household manuals. Damask
papers. Sermons. The psalm book. Serial publication and romance. Mucedorus.