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157 produkter
Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleMost of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the …
Voice in Motion
Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England
Av Gina Bloom
E-bok, 2013
1007 kr
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Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern …
Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825
E-bok, 2011
1256 kr
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The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 reconstructs how eighteenth-century British readers invented further adventures for beloved characters, including Gulliver, Falstaff, Pamela, and Tristram Shandy. Far from being close-ended and self-contained, the novels and plays in which these characters …
Printing the Middle Ages
Av Siân Echard
E-bok, 2013
1302 kr
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In Printing the Middle Ages SiÂn Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and …
Trouble with Ownership
Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 166-173
Av Jody Greene
E-bok, 2011
1125 kr
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Copyright and intellectual property issues are intricately woven into any written work, but the precise nature of this relationship has plagued authors, printers, and booksellers for centuries. What does it mean to own the products of our intellectual labors in our own time? And what was the …
Ways of Writing
The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
E-bok, 2012
477 kr
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Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to …
Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period
E-bok, 2013
1181 kr
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In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Coleridge. DeQuincey's charges and the controversy they ignited have shaped readers' responses to the work …
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Av Brian Stock
E-bok, 2013
825 kr
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Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical …
Curiosities and Texts
The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England
E-bok, 2010
985 kr
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A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, …
Used Books
Marking Readers in Renaissance England
E-bok, 2010
488 kr
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In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to …
Literary Market
Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime
E-bok, 2011
1125 kr
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A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities …
Out of Sorts
On Typography and Print Culture
E-bok, 2011
1157 kr
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The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful …
Bibliography and the Book Trades
Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
E-bok, 2013
1125 kr
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Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in …
Divine Art, Infernal Machine
The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it …
Books and Readers in Early Modern England
Material Studies
Av Jennifer Andersen, Elizabeth Sauer
E-bok, 2012
562 kr
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Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence-from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to …
Queen's Library
Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514
E-bok, 2011
1462 kr
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What do the physical characteristics of the books acquired by elite women in the late medieval and early modernperiods tell us about their owners, and what in particular can their illustrations-especially their illustrations of women-reveal? Centered on Anne, duchess of Brittany and twice queen of …
Fabrication of American Literature
Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture
E-bok, 2011
1100 kr
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Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land …
Knowing Books
The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Britain
E-bok, 2011
1125 kr
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The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own …
Owning William Shakespeare
The King's Men and Their Intellectual Property
E-bok, 2011
562 kr
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Copyright is by no means the only device for asserting ownership of a work. Some writers, including playwrights in the early modern period, did not even view print copyright as the most important of their authorial rights. A rich vein of recent scholarship has examined the interaction between royal …
Tabula Picta
Painting and Writing in Medieval Law
Av Marta Madero
E-bok, 2011
688 kr
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To whom does a painted tablet-a tabula picta-belong? To the owner of the physical piece of wood on which an image is painted? Or to the person who made the painting on that piece of wood? By extension, one might ask, who is the owner of a text? Is it the person who has written the words, or the …
Reading Women
Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Av Heidi Brayman Hackel, Catherine E. Kelly
E-bok, 2011
488 kr
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In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female …
Early African American Print Culture
Av Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein
E-bok, 2012
637 kr
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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over …
Camera and the Press
American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
E-bok, 2012
1050 kr
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Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the …
Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe
French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets
E-bok, 2012
1192 kr
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Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them-least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and …
Pens and Needles
Women's Textualities in Early Modern England
Av Susan Frye
E-bok, 2011
769 kr
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The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning …
Shakespeare's Stationers
Studies in Cultural Bibliography
E-bok, 2012
1537 kr
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Recent studies in early modern cultural bibliography have put forth a radically new Shakespeare-a man of keen literary ambition who wrote for page as well as stage. His work thus comes to be viewed as textual property and a material object not only seen theatrically but also bought, read, …
Bound to Read
Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature
E-bok, 2013
1125 kr
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Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of commercial binding, most published literary texts …
Blind Impressions
Methods and Mythologies in Book History
E-bok, 2013
1058 kr
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"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of …
Jeremiah's Scribes
Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
E-bok, 2013
1092 kr
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New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the …
Evening News
Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe
E-bok, 2014
1192 kr
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Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous …
