Bound to Read - Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Todd Knight is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington. Klappentext Jeffrey Todd Knight is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington. Zusammenfassung Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England! examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts! authors! and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Compiling Culture PART I. READERS Chapter 1. Special Collections: Book Curatorship and the Idea of Early Print in Libraries Chapter 2. Making Shakespeare's Books: Material Intertextuality from the Bindery to the Conservation Lab PART II. WRITERS Chapter 3. Transformative Imitation: Composing the Lyric in Liber Lilliati and Watson's Hekatompathia Chapter 4. Vernacularity and the Compiling Self in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and Montaigne's Essays Chapter 5. The Custom-Made Corpus: English Collected Works in Print, 1532-1623 Epilogue: "Collated and Perfect" Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Todd Knight, KNIGHT JEFFREY TODD
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2013
• EAN: 9780812245073
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4507-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Material Texts; Material Texts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism