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]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/004
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): JonesEdward <1950->; AchinsteinSharon; CampbellGordon <1944->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts
• ISBN: 1-118-63528-0; 1-119-07379-0; 1-118-63526-4; 1-118-63515-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131574903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Concise companions to literature and culture.