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A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts: A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
Edward Jones
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Description for A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts: A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Jones, Edward. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
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 Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
- Increases accessibility through a rubric organized around archival and manuscript studies; the provenance of ... Read more
- Announces the recovery of archival documents, which in some instances are over four hundred years old
- Places translations of Milton's Latin, Greek, and Italian alongside the original texts to increase accessibility for a wide audience of students and scholars
- Provides an invaluable platform for highlighting on-going attention to the history of the book and its corollary subjects of reading and writing practices in the 1500s and 1600s
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781118635292
SKU
V9781118635292
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About Edward Jones
Edward Jones is a Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and the Editor of Milton Quarterly. His research interests centre on seventeenth-century archival records created by the English state, church, and parish and how such documents inform the life and writings of John Milton. Book-length publications include Milton’s Sonnets: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1992 and , Young Milton: The ... Read more
Reviews for A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts: A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell
At a time when so much literary theory seems to disdain engagement with textual artifacts, this volume reminds us of the critical importance of the forensic analysis of modes of literary production and transmission by asserting that literature is always a handicraft, a thing made to be possessed and repossessed. - Stephen W. Brown, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Journal, 2016.