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

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 INDICE: Notes on ContributorsIntroductionEdward JonesManuscript Studies1. Stanford University s Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey,Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and MiltonElaine Treharne2. Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the UniversityProgressesSarah Knight3. Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelf–List Attributableto John Hales of Eton, c.1624William Poole4. Young Milton in his LettersJohn K. Hale5. The Itinerant Sibling:  Christopher Milton in Londonand SuffolkEdward Jones6. Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts andDiscourses of FriendshipCedric C. BrownPrinted Books1. Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590Neil Harris2. Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton s Reading of TheTempestKaren L. Edwards3. The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John TolandThomas N. Corns4. The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton s Logic and theRenaissance TriviumJameela LaresProduction, Dissemination, Appropriation1. Misprinting Bartholomew Fair : Jonson and `TheAbsolute Knave John Creaser2. Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of theSeventeenth CenturyN. H. Keeble3. Marvell and the Dutch in 1665Martin Dzelzainis4. Did Milton Read Selden?Sharon Achinstein5. Hands OnNeil Forsyth6. Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and RememberingTitus Andronicus in Heiner Müller s and BrigitteMaria Mayer s Anatomie TitusPascale AebischerAfterword: By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in theHebridesAndrew McNeillie

• ISBN: 978-1-118-63529-2
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 392
• Fecha Publicación: 12/06/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés