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Informationen zum Autor András Kiséry is Assistant Professor of English at The City College of New York, City University of New York Allison K. Deutermann is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York Klappentext Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature explores the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? The essays in this collection answer this question by uniting two distinct, even oppositional, methodologies that have transformed literary studies over the past decade: a renewed interest in formalist analysis and the broad acceptance of the study of the material text as central to the discipline. The present volume shows what is to be gained by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history, thus representing the new English Renaissance literary historiography that links literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing. Formal matters brings together studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of Shakespeare to jests and printed commonplace books, and from the works of Philip Sidney and Thomas Middleton to Hakluyt's Principal Navigations. The ten featured studies make important, original contributions to research on the genres of early modern literature, focusing on the involvement of literary forms in the scribal and print cultures of compilation, continuation, translation, and correspondence, as well as in matters of political republicanism, of popular piety and of geometry, among others. Taken together, the essays in this collection exemplify how an attention to form and matter can historicise writing without abandoning a literary focus. To come Zusammenfassung The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Allison Deutermann and András KiséryI. Forming Literature1. The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader - Heather James2. Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Love's Martyr - Matthew Zarnowiecki3. 'Divines into dry Vines': forms of jesting in Renaissance England - Adam Smyth4. Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of continuation - Jeffrey Todd KnightII. Translations5. Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England - Tanya Pollard6. Book, list, word: forms of translation in the work of Richard Hakluyt - Henry S. TurnerIII. The matters of writing 7. The forms of news from France in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part three - Alan Stewart8. Writings and the problem of satisfaction in Michaelmas Term - Amanda Bailey9. Saving souls or selling (virtual) godliness? The 'penny godlinesses' of John Andrewes and the problem of 'popular puritanism' in early Stuart England - Peter Lake10. How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney - Shankar Raman11. Afterword - David Scott KastanIndex...
