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A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts (eBook, ePUB)

A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell

Redaktion: Jones, Edward

Beschreibung

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.

• Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance
• Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
• Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion and literary history
• Announces the recovery of archival documents, which in some instances are over four hundred years old
• Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars
• Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 14.06MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Edward Jones is a Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and  the Editor of Milton Quarterly. His research interests centre on seventeenth-century archival records created by the English state, church, and parish and how  such documents inform the life and writings of John Milton. Book-length  publications include  Milton's Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 and ,  Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642. A selection of his essays can be found in RES, JEGP,  A Concise Companion to Milton, The Oxford Handbook of Milton, and Milton in Context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118635285
• Artikelnr.: 43665823

Rezensionen

"A valuable set of essays by major scholars analyzing reading, writing, and transmission practices as they pertain to Early Modern English manuscripts and printed books. The essays illustrate general principles by close examination of a particular text, including several by Milton and Shakespeare." Barbara Lewalski, Harvard University