Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569-1679 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569-1679 write by Steven K. Galbraith. This book was released on 2006. Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569-1679 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract: This dissertation fills the critical void on the history of Spenser and his editions. Applying the critical methods of the History of the Book, I situate each of Spenser's editions published from 1569 through 1679 within the context of its contemporary print culture. I study each edition's physical makeup, typography, format, and production history. Additionally, I investigate the lives of the various printers, publishers, booksellers, and editors who had a hand in producing the books. From the evidence I collect, I construct arguments concerning Spenser's relationship with the printing trade, his readership, and his literary reputation. The first chapter examines Spenser's interactions with books and the book trade during his youth and how these interactions helped shape his literary career. The second chapter demonstrates how The Shepheardes Calender (1579) deviated from its Italian bibliographic model by substituting italic type with black-letter or "English" type. The choice of "English" type supported the book's promotion of the English language and literature. The third chapter argues that Spenser and his printer helped position The Faerie Queene (1590) within the epic tradition by imitating the appearance of contemporary editions of classical and Italian epics. The fourth chapter examines Spenser's first folio (1611-c.1625), demonstrating that it was not a monument to the author, as were contemporary folios, but rather a cheaply produced book sold in sections. The fifth chapter reexamines the manuscript and printing history of A View of the Present State of Ireland. The final chapter argues that for many seventeenth-century readers, Spenser's deliberately archaic language had grown too obscure, resulting in efforts to regularize his works. Spenser's literary reputation was momentarily rehabilitated in 1679, when, during a time in which reprints made up a large percentage of English books, Spenser's works returned to folio and set the stage for a minor eighteenth-century rebirth.
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book write by Hazel Wilkinson. This book was released on 2017-11-30. Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England
The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England write by Adam Smyth. This book was released on 2023-10-03. The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edmund Spenser write by Andrew Hadfield. This book was released on 2014. Edmund Spenser available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.
The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature
The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature write by Rachel Stenner. This book was released on 2018-07-04. The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and this book both characterizes that engagement and proposes the typographic imaginary as a framework for its analysis. Certain texts, Rachel Stenner states, describe the people, places, concerns, and processes of printing in ways that, over time, generate their own figurative authority. The typographic imaginary is posited as a literary phenomenon shared by different writers, a wider cultural understanding of printing, and a critical concept for unpicking the particular imaginative otherness that printing introduced to literature. Authors use the typographic imaginary to interrogate their place in an evolving media environment, to assess the value of the printed text, and to analyse the roles of other text-producing agents. This book treats a broad array of authors and forms: printers’ manuals; William Caxton’s paratexts; the pamphlet dialogues of Robert Copland and Ned Ward; poetic miscellanies; the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne, and Thomas Nashe; the poetry and prose of Edmund Spenser; writings by John Taylor and Alexander Pope. At its broadest, this study contributes to an understanding of how technology changes cultures. Located at the crossroads between literary, material, and book historical research, the particular intervention that this work makes is threefold. In describing the typographic imaginary, it proposes a new framework for analysis of print culture. It aims to focus critical engagement on symbolic representations of material forms. Finally, it describes a lineage of late medieval and early modern authors, stretching from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, that are linked by their engagement of a particular aesthetic.
