Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Informationen zum Autor Hazel Wilkinson is a Birmingham Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where she lectures on eighteenth-century literature. She has published articles and book chapters on subjects including eighteenth-century literature, typography, and the history of the book trade, and is currently an editor on The Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope (forthcoming). Wilkinson has also created a database of eighteenth-century printers' ornaments in partnership with the University of Cambridge Library. Klappentext The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviations; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. 'The Wits have sent for the Book': (non-)reading, and Spenserian books before 1700; 1. Spenser the Whig: John Hughes's Clubbable Edition, 1715; 2. Miscellaneous Spenser: verse miscellanies and miscellaneous culture, 1716-50; 3. Spenser illustrated: Thomas Birch's 1751 Edition; 4. Spenser annotated: two scholarly editions, 1758-9; 5. Spenser and the public domain: the Scottish Publishers' series, 1778-95; Appendix A: checklist of the eighteenth-century editions of Edmund Spenser; List of works cited; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Hazel Wilkinson, Hazel (University of Birmingham) Wilkinson, Wilkinson Hazel
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316648919
• ISBN: 978-1-316-64891-9
• Seiten: 277
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; English, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800