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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Author : Tianhu Hao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-12
Category : Commonplace books
ISBN : 103263572X

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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond by Tianhu Hao Pdf

"Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden, a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections, which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism, composition, reading practice, and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters, which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing, early modern English reading practice, and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China, comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu, exploring Matteo Ricci's cross-cultural commonplace writing, and re-reading Shakespeare's sonnets in light of Ricci's On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature, manuscript study, commonplace books, history of the book, and intercultural study."--

Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Author : Hao Tianhu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003813606

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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond by Hao Tianhu Pdf

Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden, a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections, which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism, composition, reading practice, and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters, which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing, early modern English reading practice, and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China, comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu, exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing, and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature, manuscript study, commonplace books, history of the book, and intercultural study.

Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Author : Hao Tianhu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003813552

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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond by Hao Tianhu Pdf

Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden, a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections, which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism, composition, reading practice, and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters, which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing, early modern English reading practice, and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China, comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu, exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing, and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature, manuscript study, commonplace books, history of the book, and intercultural study.

Books and Readers in Early Modern England

Author : Jennifer Andersen,Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204711

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Books and Readers in Early Modern England by Jennifer Andersen,Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.

Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625

Author : Victoria Brownlee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192540560

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Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625 by Victoria Brownlee Pdf

The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection between these readings and various forms of writing and argues that literary writings bear the hallmarks of the period's dominant exegetical practices, and do interpretative work. Tracing the impact of biblical reading across a range of genres and writers, the discussion demonstrates that literary reimaginings of, and allusions to, the Bible were common, varied, and ideologically evocative. The book explores how a series of popularly interpreted biblical narratives were recapitulated in the work of a diverse selection of writers, some of whom remain relatively unknown. In early modern England, the figures of Solomon, Job, and Christ's mother, Mary, and the books of Song of Songs and Revelation, are enmeshed in different ways with contemporary concerns, and their usage illustrates how the Bible's narratives could be turned to a fascinating array of debates. In showing the multifarious contexts in which biblical narratives were deployed, this book argues that Protestant interpretative practices contribute to, and problematize, literary constructions of a range of theological, political, and social debates.

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

Author : Kate Narveson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317174424

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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England by Kate Narveson Pdf

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England studies how immersion in the Bible among layfolk gave rise to a non-professional writing culture, one of the first instances of ordinary people taking up the pen as part of their daily lives. Kate Narveson examines the development of the culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender, and the habit of applying Scripture to personal experience. She explores too the tensions that arose between lay and clergy as layfolk embraced not just the chance to read Scripture but the opportunity to create a written record of their ideas and experiences, acquiring a new control over their spiritual self-definition and a new mode of gaining status in domestic and communal circles. Based on a study of print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this book begins by analyzing how lay people were taught to read Scripture both through explicit clerical instruction in techniques such as note-taking and collation, and through indirect means such as exposure to sermons, and then how they adapted those techniques to create their own devotional writing. The first part of the book concludes with case studies of three ordinary lay people, Anne Venn, Nehemiah Wallington, and Richard Willis. The second half of the study turns to the question of how gender registers in this lay scripturalist writing, offering extended attention to the little-studied meditations of Grace, Lady Mildmay. Narveson concludes by arguing that by mid-century, despite clerical anxiety, writing was central to lay engagement with Scripture and had moved the center of religious experience beyond the church walls.

True Relations

Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812244854

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Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict.

Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

Author : Edith Snook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871495

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Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England by Edith Snook Pdf

A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the authors and texts considered are Katherine Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner; Anne Askew, The Examinations of Anne Askew; Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing; Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives; Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; and Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Attentive to contiguities between representations of reading in print and reading practices found in manuscript culture, this book also examines a commonplace book belonging to Anne Cornwallis (Folger Folger MS V.a.89) and a Passion poem presented by Elizabeth Middleton to Sarah Edmondes (Bod. MS Don. e.17). Edith Snook here makes an original contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of historicizing reading by foregrounding female writers of the early modern period. She explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices. Finally, because the activity of reading is a site of cultural conflict - over gender, social and educational status, and the religious or national affiliation of readers - Snook brings to light how these women, when they write about reading, are engaged in structuring the cultural politics of early modern England.

The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England

Author : Deborah Solomon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000828047

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The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England by Deborah Solomon Pdf

This book draws attention to the pervasive artistic rivalry between Elizabethan poetry and gardens in order to illustrate the benefits of a trans-media approach to the literary culture of the period. In its blending of textual studies with discussions of specific historical patches of earth, The Poem and the Garden demonstrates how the fashions that drove poetic invention were as likely to be influenced by a popular print convention or a particular garden experience as they were by the formal genres of the classical poets. By moving beyond a strictly verbal approach in its analysis of creative imitation, this volume offers new ways of appreciating the kinds of comparative and competitive methods that shaped early modern poetics. Noting shared patterns—both conceptual and material—in these two areas not only helps explain the persistence of botanical metaphors in sixteenth-century books of poetry but also offers a new perspective on the types of contrastive illusions that distinguish the Elizabethan aesthetic. With its interdisciplinary approach, The Poem and the Garden is of interest to all students and scholars who study early modern poetics, book history, and garden studies.

Reading Material in Early Modern England

Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521842514

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Reading Material in Early Modern England by Heidi Brayman Hackel Pdf

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England

Author : Kevin M. Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521824346

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Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin M. Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

Shakespeare's Early Readers

Author : Jean-Christophe Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107138339

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Shakespeare's Early Readers by Jean-Christophe Mayer Pdf

This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare, often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame.

Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521842964

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Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England by Stephen B. Dobranski Pdf

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A Scholarly Edition of a Seventeenth-century Anonymous Commonplace Book in the British Library

Author : Catherine Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Commonplace books
ISBN : 0773400842

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A Scholarly Edition of a Seventeenth-century Anonymous Commonplace Book in the British Library by Catherine Armstrong Pdf

A work that brings to life the reader-reception practices of early modern England. It provides the original voices of both the author of the published work and of the commonplace author while remaining pure to the idiomatic nuances of the time.

Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing

Author : Julie A. Eckerle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317061755

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Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing by Julie A. Eckerle Pdf

Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. In so doing, it operates at the intersection of several recent trends: interest in women's contributions to autobiography; greater awareness of the diversity and flexibility of auto/biographical forms in the early modern period; and the use of manuscripts and other material evidence to trace literacy practices. Through analysis of a wide variety of life writings by early modern Englishwomen-including Elizabeth Delaval, Dorothy Calthorpe, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett-Julie A. Eckerle demonstrates that these women were not only familiar with the controversial romance genre but also deeply influenced by it. Romance, she argues, with its unending tales of unsatisfying love, spoke to something in women's experience; offered a model by which they could recount their own disappointments in a world where arranged marriage and often loveless matches ruled the day; and exerted a powerful, pervasive pressure on their textual self-formations. Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing documents a vibrant secular form of auto/biographical writing that coexisted alongside numerous spiritual forms, providing a much more nuanced and complete understanding of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women's reading and writing literacies.