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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478915903321

Titolo

The Burley manuscript / edited by Peter Redford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, Michigan : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2112-3

1-5261-0450-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

The Manchester Spenser

Disciplina

091

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

Renaissance

LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Renaissance - England

English literature - Manuscripts - Early modern, 1500-1700

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

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Machine generated contents note: ; 1. Introduction -- ; 2. History -- ; 3. Description -- ; 4. William Parkhurst -- ; 5. Provenance -- ; 6. Interception -- ; 7. Memory -- ; 8. manuscript text -- ; 9. Private letters: commentary and notes -- ; 10. English verse: commentary and notes -- ; 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of the collection are described in detail, with lengthy notes on memorial transcription of verse and



prose, and the clandestine interception of letters. The book makes available texts, annotations and commentary that will have an impact on a wide range of scholarship. It will be found useful to literary scholars, editors, and social historians, illuminating such diverse subjects as the circulation of verse, the correspondence of John Donne, the self-fashioning of English gentlemen after the classical Romans of their class and the government's paranoiac spying on its own citizens."--Publisher's description.