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.
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 manus...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
2015.
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| Series: | Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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| Summary: | 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 texts and the authority of editions; and studies of genre, religion and literary history -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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781118635285 1118635280 9781118635155 1118635159 9781118635261 1118635264 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |