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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817435103321

Titolo

The Burley manuscript / / edited by Peter Redford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2112-3

1-5261-0450-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 447 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Collana

The Manchester Spenser

Disciplina

820.8003

Soggetti

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

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

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Manuscripts, English - History

Manuscripts, Renaissance - England

Literature

Literature: History & Criticism

LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

European history: Renaissance

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.