Jones A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts

A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-63515-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written bya team of international scholars, this Concise Companionestablishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs oftwo different approaches to literacy in the early modernperiod.
* Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscriptand a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite,private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which accountfor the literary achievements of the Renaissance
* Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels inArabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakespeare'sTitus Andronicus
* Increases accessibility through a rubric organized aroundarchival and manuscript studies; the provenance of texts andthe authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion andliterary history
* Announces the recovery of archival documents, which insome instances are over four hundred years old
* Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italianalongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wideaudience of students and scholars
* Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-goingattention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects ofreading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Edward

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors x
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction xv
Edward Jones
Part I Manuscript Studies 1
1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3
Elaine Treharne
2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21
Sarah Knight
3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41
William Poole
4 Young Milton in His Letters 66
John K. Hale
5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87
Edward Jones
6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106
Cedric C. Brown
Part II Printed Books 129
7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131
Neil Harris
8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150
Karen L. Edwards
9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171
Thomas N. Corns
10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188
Jameela Lares
Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207
11 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209
John Creaser
12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229
N.H. Keeble
13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249
Martin Dzelzainis
14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266
Sharon Achinstein
15 Hands On 294
Neil Forsyth
16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322
Pascale Aebischer
By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346
Andrew McNeillie
Index 354

Über Autor(innen)

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.