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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131574903321

Titolo

A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell / / edited by Edward Jones ; contributors, Sharon Achinstein, [and sixteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-63528-0

1-119-07379-0

1-118-63526-4

1-118-63515-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Concise companions to literature and culture

Disciplina

820.9/004

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Books - History - 1450-1600

Books - History - 17th century

Codicology

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Books and reading - History - 16th century

Books and reading - History - 17th century

Printing - History - 16th century

Printing - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Stanford University's Cavendish manuscript : Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton -- Texts presented to Elizabeth I on the university progresses -- Analysing a private library, with a shelf-list attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 -- Young Milton in his letters -- The itinerant sibling : Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk -- Milton, the attentive Mr Skinner, and the acts and discourses of friendship -- Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 --



Tyranny and tragicomedy in Milton's reading of The tempest -- The earliest Miltonists : Patrick Hume and John Toland -- The ghost of rhetoric : Milton's logic and the Renaissance trivium -- Misprinting Bartholomew Fair : Jonson and the absolute knave -- Reliquiae Baxterianae and the shaping of the seventeenth century -- Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 -- Did Milton read Selden? -- Hands on -- Shakespeare with a difference : dismembering and remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus -- By ferry, foot, and fate : a tour in the Hebrides.

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.   Features essays illustrating the particular ways a manuscript and a printed book reflect the different emphases of an elite, private and an egalitarian, public culture, both of which account for the literary achievements of the Renaissance Includes wide-ranging essays, from printing the Gospels in Arabic to a contemporary reconceptualization of Shakes