Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and 'material' reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early modern English miscellanies, anthologies, and other compilations. Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England models and refines the study of these complicated collections. Several of its contributors question and redefine the terms we use to describe miscellanies and anthologies. Two senior scholars correct the misidentification of a scribe and, in so doing, uncover evidence of a Catholic, probably Jesuit, priest and community in a trio of manuscripts. Additional contributors show compilers interpreting, attributing, and arranging texts, as well as passively accepting others' editorial decisions. While manuscript verse miscellanies remain appropriately central to the collection, several essays also involve print and prose, ranging from letters to sermons and even political prophesies. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, the collection offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics, and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in academic studies of the history of the book.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Limited, Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-10
1472420276
ISBN-13
9781472420275
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209256797
Product Key Features
Author
Daniel Starza Smith, Joshua Eckhardt
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
646g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Series Edited by
Professor James Daybell,Dr. Adam Smyth
Series Title
Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Content Note
Includes 13 B&W Illustrations
Author Biography
Joshua Eckhardt is Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Daniel Starza Smith is British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford.