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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters
Language, Materiality, and Early Modern Epistolary Culture
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which …
Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism
Av Marjon Ames
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Intensely persecuted during the English Interregnum, early Quakers left a detailed record of the suffering they endured for their faith. Margaret Fell, Letters, and the Making of Quakerism is the first book to connect the suffering experience with the communication network that drew the faithful …
Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England
Av Callan Davies, Hannah Lilley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2190 kr
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This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from the eighteenth century) to describe …
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Av Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
3146 kr
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for …
Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe
Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books
Av Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for …
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader
Eating Words
Av Jason Scott-Warren, Andrew Elder Zurcher
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts. Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives, digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay between text and food, in which every element of dining, from preparation to purgation, had its …
Reading Drama in Tudor England
Av Tamara Atkin
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play …
Singing the News
Ballads in Mid-Tudor England
Av Jenni Hyde
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of finding out news and information. It is a highly readable and accessible account of the important role played by ballads in spreading news during a period …
Print Letters in Seventeenth‐Century England
Politics, Religion, and News Culture
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England investigates how and why letters were printed in the interrelated spheres of political contestation, religious controversy, and news culture—those published as pamphlets, as broadsides, and in newsbooks in the interests of ideological disputes and as …
Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers
Cryptography and the History of Literacy
Av Katherine Ellison, Susan Kim
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other …
Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts
Av Claire Loffman, Harriet Phillips
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts provides a series of answers written by more than forty editors of diverse texts addressing the 'how-to's' of completing an excellent scholarly edition. The Handbook is primarily a practical guide rather than a theoretical forum; it airs common problems and …
Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan era through the mid-seventeenth century, paying attention to the distinctive material, social, and literary features of these documents. The study has two main focuses: the first, the …
Impressive Shakespeare
Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama
Av Harry Newman
Häftad, 2020
926 kr
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Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare’s relationship with "print culture" in light of his plays’ engagement with the language and material culture of three interrelated "impressing technologies": wax sealing, coining, and typographic printing. It analyses the material and rhetorical forms …
Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson …
Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson …
Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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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 …
Elizabethan Top Ten
Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores ’popularity’ in early modern English writings. Is ’popular’ best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern …
Age of Thomas Nashe
Text, Bodies and Trespasses of Authorship in Early Modern England
Av Stephen Guy-Bray, Joan Pong Linton
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Traditional literary criticism once treated Thomas Nashe as an Elizabethan oddity, difficult to understand or value. He was described as an unrestrained stylist, venomous polemicist, unreliable source, and closet pornographer. But today this flamboyant writer sits at the center of many trends in …
Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England
Av Joshua Eckhardt, Daniel Starza Smith
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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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 …
Epistolary Community in Print, 1580–1664
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Epistolary Community in Print contends that the printed letter is an inherently sociable genre ideally suited to the theorisation of community in early modern England. In manual, prose or poetic form, printed letter collections make private matters public, and in so doing reveal, first how tenuous …
Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Though printer Richard Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compiliation has long been ignored or misundertood by scholars of early modern English culture. Embracing a broad range of critical and historical …
Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book
Metamorphosing Classical Heroines in Late Medieval and Renaissance England
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book examines the historical and the fictionalized reception of Ovid’s poetry in the literature and books of Tudor England. It does so through the study of a particular set of Ovidian narratives-namely, those concerning the protean heroines of the Heroides and …
Early Modern English Marginalia
Inbunden, 2018
2888 kr
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Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier …
Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature
Inbunden, 2013
2879 kr
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Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature shows how these images fostered what Elizabeth Eisenstein called brainwork related …
Circulation of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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This study examines the transmission and compilation of poetic texts through manuscripts from the late-Elizabethan era through the mid-seventeenth century, paying attention to the distinctive material, social, and literary features of these documents. The study has two main focuses: the first, the …
Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2022
3146 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about …
Instructional Writing in English, 1350-1650
Materiality and Meaning
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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Exploring the nature of utilitarian texts in English transmitted from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers textual and material strategies for the presentation and organisation of written knowledge and information during the period. In particular, it investigates the relationship …
Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2023
876 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about …
Early Modern English Marginalia
Häftad, 2021
809 kr
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Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier …
Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England
Av Callan Davies, Hannah Lilley m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from the eighteenth century) to describe …
