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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463484703321

Autore

Zarnowiecki Matthew <1975->

Titolo

Fair copies : reproducing the English lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare / / Matthew Zarnowiecki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6747-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

821/.040903

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Criticism, Textual

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Manuscripts

Lyric poetry - History and criticism

Transmission of texts - England - History - 16th century

Printing - England - History - 16th century

Early printed books - England - 16th century

Electronic books.

England Intellectual life 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. The “vnquiet state” of the Lover: Richard Tottel’s Lyric and Legal Reproductions -- 2. “Nedelesse Singularitie”: George Gascoigne’s Strategies for Preserving Lyric Delight -- 3. Solitude, Poetic Community, and Lyric Recording in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clovts Come home againe -- 4. Lyric Surrogacy: Reproducing the “I” in Sidney’s Arcadia -- 5. “All Men Make Faults”: Begetting Error in Shake-speares Sonnets -- Coda: The End of Shake-speares Sonnets -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the latter half of the sixteenth century, English poets and printers experimented widely with a new literary format, the printed collection of lyric poetry. They not only investigated the possibilities of working with a new medium, but also wrote metaphors of human reproduction directly into their works. In Fair Copies, Matthew Zarnowiecki argues



that poetic production was re-envisioned during this period, which was rife with models of copying and imitation, to include reproduction as one of its inherent attributes.Tracing the development of the English lyric during this crucial period, Fair Copies incorporates a diverse range of cultural productions and reproductions – from key poetic texts by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Gascoigne, and Tottel to legal breviaries, visual representations of song, midwives’ manuals, and commonplace books. Also included are fifteen facsimile reproductions of poems in early printed books, with explanations and discussions of their importance. Calling upon these diverse sources, and examining lyric poems in their earliest manuscript and printed contexts, Zarnowiecki develops a new, reproductively centred method of reading early modern English lyric poetry.