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The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429628207

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The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History by William E. Engel Pdf

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England’s first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to—and still remains—a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art.

Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)

Author : Nina Lamal,Jamie Cumby,Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448896

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Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800) by Nina Lamal,Jamie Cumby,Helmer J. Helmers Pdf

Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous potential? The eighteen contributors develop new perspectives on the relationship between the rise of print and the changing relationships between subjects and rulers by analysing print’s role in early modern bureaucracy, the techniques of printed propaganda, genres, and strategies of state communication. While print is often still thought of as an emancipating and disruptive force of change in early modern societies, the resulting picture shows how instrumental print was in strengthening existing power structures. Contributors: Renaud Adam, Martin Christ, Jamie Cumby, Arthur der Weduwen, Nora Epstein, Andreas Golob, Helmer Helmers, Jan Hillgärtner, Rindert Jagersma, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Nina Lamal, Margaret Meserve, Rachel Midura, Gautier Mingous, Ernesto E. Oyarbide Magaña, Caren Reimann, Chelsea Reutchke, Celyn David Richards, Paolo Sachet, Forrest Strickland, and Ramon Voges.

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108843393

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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England by William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams Pdf

This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition

Author : Aleida Auld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003816225

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Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition by Aleida Auld Pdf

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature, informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between their time and our own. At stake are reconfigurations of oeuvre and authorship, the relationship between the author and work, the relationship between authors, and the author’s own role in establishing an editorial tradition. Ultimately, this study recognizes that the editorial tradition is a stabilizing force while asserting that it may also be a source of strange and provocative reconceptions of early modern authors and their works in the present day. Scholars and students of early modern literature will benefit from this approach to editing as a form of reception that encompasses all the editorial decisions that are necessary to ‘put forth’ a text.

The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Rachel Stenner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317012870

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The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature by Rachel Stenner Pdf

The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms: printers’ manuals; William Caxton’s paratexts; the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward; poetic miscellanies; the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic.

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author : Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009051491

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Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England by Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann Pdf

This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies offer an innovative research agenda, inviting new, exploratory approaches to Shakespeare's work that embrace interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Drawing on the contexts of Renaissance literature across genres and on various discourses including rhetoric, medicine, religion, morality, historiography, colonialism, and politics, the chapters bring together a broad range of texts, concerns, and methodologies central to the study of early modern culture. Stimulating for postgraduate students, lecturers, and researchers with an interest in the broader fields of memory studies and the history of the emotions – two vibrant and growing areas of research – it will also prove invaluable to teachers of Shakespeare, dramaturges, and directors of stage productions, provoking discussions of how convergences of memory and affect influence stagecraft, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and poetic language.

A Writing Studies Primer

Author : Joyce Kinkead
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770488151

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A Writing Studies Primer by Joyce Kinkead Pdf

Writing is omnipresent in our lives, yet we rarely stop and consider its history and material culture. This volume introduces student readers to the development of writing across time and societies. The book incorporates autoethnography and asks readers to consider writing histories, influences, processes, and tools in their own lives. Short readings are included for each chapter. Designed for composition courses with a Writing About Writing focus or courses in Writing Studies, A Writing Studies Primer is a distinctive, visually engaging introduction to writing through its material culture.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England

Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198846239

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England by Adam Smyth Pdf

"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--

Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives

Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel,Ian Frederick Moulton
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291576

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Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives by Heidi Brayman Hackel,Ian Frederick Moulton Pdf

The availability of digital editions of early modern works brings a wealth of exciting archival and primary source materials into the classroom. But electronic archives can be overwhelming and hard to use, for teachers and students alike, and digitization can distort or omit information about texts. Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives places traditional and electronic archives in conversation, outlines practical methods for incorporating them into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and addresses the theoretical issues involved in studying them. The volume discusses a range of physical and virtual archives from 1473 to 1700 that are useful in the teaching of early modern literature--both major sources and rich collections that are less known (including affordable or free options for those with limited institutional resources). Although the volume focuses on English literature and culture, essays discuss a wide range of comparative approaches involving Latin, French, Spanish, German, and early American texts and explain how to incorporate visual materials, ballads, domestic treatises, atlases, music, and historical documents into the teaching of literature.

The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England

Author : Jocelyn Hargrave
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030202750

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The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England by Jocelyn Hargrave Pdf

This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and adapted the guidelines of these style guides as part of their inherently human editorial practice. Offering a critical mapping of early modern style guides, Jocelyn Hargrave explores when and how style guides originated, how they contributed to the evolution of editorial practice and how they impacted the overall publishing of content.

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000770278

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Seeing Shakespeare’s Style by Douglas Bruster Pdf

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing, we need new ways to understand how words, phrases, speeches, and genres in literature work. Responding to this need, this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from, its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works, and the works of his contemporaries, this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material, graphic, and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

Author : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198848790

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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne Pdf

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality--from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)--intelligible on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book' were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.

The Book World of Early Modern Europe

Author : Arthur der Weduwen,Malcolm Walsby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004518100

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The Book World of Early Modern Europe by Arthur der Weduwen,Malcolm Walsby Pdf

This collection of essays, commissioned in honour of Andrew Pettegree, presents original contributions on the Reformation, communication and the book in early modern Europe. Together, the essays reflect on Pettegree’s ground-breaking influence on these fields, and offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship.

The Shakespearean Death Arts

Author : William E. Engel,Grant Williams
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030884901

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The Shakespearean Death Arts by William E. Engel,Grant Williams Pdf

This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.

The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Tina Skouen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351402828

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The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature by Tina Skouen Pdf

The stigma of haste pervaded early modern English culture, more so than the so-called stigma of print. The period’s writers were perpetually short on time, but what does it mean for authors to present themselves as hasty or slow, or to characterize others similarly? This book argues that such classifications were a way to define literary value. To be hasty was, in a sense, to be irresponsible, but, in another sense, it signaled a necessary practicality. Expressions of haste revealed a deep conflict between the ideal of slow writing in classical and humanist rhetoric and the sometimes grim reality of fast printing. Indeed, the history of print is a history of haste, which carries with it a particular set of modern anxieties that are difficult to understand in the absence of an interdisciplinary approach. Many previous studies have concentrated on the period’s competing definitions of time and on the obsession with how to use time well. Other studies have considered time as a notable literary theme. This book is the first to connect ideas of time to writerly haste in a richly interdisciplinary manner, drawing upon rhetorical theory, book history, poetics, religious studies and early modern moral philosophy, which, only when taken together, provide a genuinely deep understanding of why the stigma of haste so preoccupied the early modern mind. The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature surveys the period from ca 1580 to ca 1730, with special emphasis on the seventeenth century. The material discussed is found in emblem books, devotional literature, philosophical works, and collections of poetry, drama and romance. Among classical sources, Horace and Quintilian are especially important. The main authors considered are: Robert Parsons; Edmund Bunny; King James 1; Henry Peacham; Thomas Nash; Robert Greene; Ben Jonson; Margaret Cavendish; John Dryden; Richard Baxter; Jonathan Swift; Alexander Pope. By studying these writers’ expressions of time and haste, we may gain a better understanding of how authorship was defined at a time when the book industry was gradually taking the place of classical rhetoric in regulating writers’ activities.