03933nam 22006495 450 991081331150332120240917173735.01-4875-1494-81-4875-1493-X10.3138/9781487514938(CKB)4340000000264809(MiAaPQ)EBC5347702(DE-B1597)498392(OCoLC)1031706680(DE-B1597)9781487514938(OCoLC)1359028006(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107607(EXLCZ)99434000000026480920181207d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierElizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture /Kirk MelnikoffToronto :University of Toronto Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (xi, 291 pages) illustrationsStudies in Book and Print Culture1-4875-0223-0 Geldings, "prettie inuentions," and "plaine knauery" -- Thomas Hacket, translation, and the wonders of the New World travel narrative -- Richard Smith's browsables: A Hundredth Sundry Flowers (1573), The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577), and Diana (1592, 1594?) -- Flasket and Linley's The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage (1594): reissuing the Elizabethan epyllion -- Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and RepublicanismElizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers'Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard Smith, and Paul Linley, Kirk Melnikoff tracks the crucial role that bookselling publishers played in transmitting literary texts into print as well as energizing and shaping a new sphere of vernacular literary activity. The volume provides an overview of the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, reissuing, and specialization. Four case studies together consider links between translation and the travel narrative; bookselling and authorship; re-issuing and the Ovidian narrative poem; and specialization and professional drama. Works considered include Shakespeare's Hamlet, Thevet's The New Found World, Constable's Diana, and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. This exciting new book provides both a complement and a counter to recent studies that have turned back to authors and out to buyers and printing houses as makers of vernacular literary culture in the second half of the sixteenth centuryBook industries and tradeEnglandHistory16th centuryPublishers and publishingEnglandHistory16th centuryLiterature and societyEnglandHistory16th centuryPrintingEnglandHistory16th centuryLiterature publishingEnglandHistory16th centuryTransmission of textsEnglandHistory16th centuryEnglandgndEnglandfastAngleterreVie intellectuelle16e siecleEnglandIntellectual life16th centuryHistory.fastBook industries and tradeHistoryPublishers and publishingHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryPrintingHistoryLiterature publishingHistoryTransmission of textsHistory070.5094209/031Melnikoff Kirk 1597290DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910813311503321Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture3918995UNINA