Formal Matters

Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature
Herausgeber: Deutermann, Allison; Kisery, Andras

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature explores the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? The essays in this collection answer this question by uniting two distinct, even oppositional, methodologies that have transformed literary studies over the past decade: a renewed interest in formalist analysis and the broad acceptance of the study of the material text as central to the discipline. The present volume shows what is to be gained by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history, thus representing the new English Renaissance literary historiography that links literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing. Formal matters brings together studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of Shakespeare to jests and printed commonplace books, and from the works of Philip Sidney and Thomas Middleton to Hakluyt's Principal Navigations. The ten featured studies make important, original contributions to research on the genres of early modern literature, focusing on the involvement of literary forms in the scribal and print cultures of compilation, continuation, translation, and correspondence, as well as in matters of political republicanism, of popular piety and of geometry, among others. Taken together, the essays in this collection exemplify how an attention to form and matter can historicise writing without abandoning a literary focus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780719085536
• ISBN-10: 0719085535
• Artikelnr.: 37744065

Autorenporträt

Allison K. Deutermann is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York András Kiséry is Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York, City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Allison Deutermann and András Kiséry I. Forming Literature 1.
The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common
reader - Heather James 2. Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson,
Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Love's Martyr - Matthew Zarnowiecki
3. 'Divines into dry Vines': forms of jesting in Renaissance England - Adam
Smyth 4. Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of
continuation - Jeffrey Todd Knight II. Translations 5. Greek playbooks and
dramatic forms in early modern England - Tanya Pollard 6. Book, list, word:
forms of translation in the work of Richard Hakluyt - Henry S. Turner III.
The matters of writing 7. The forms of news from France in Shakespeare's
Henry VI, part three - Alan Stewart 8. Writings and the problem of
satisfaction in Michaelmas Term - Amanda Bailey 9. Saving souls or selling
(virtual) godliness? The 'penny godlinesses' of John Andrewes and the
problem of 'popular puritanism' in early Stuart England - Peter Lake 10.
How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney - Shankar Raman 11. Afterword -
David Scott Kastan Index