Diverting Authorities - Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print

Diverting Authorities examines literary experimentation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It looks at marginal annotations or 'glosses' provided by authors in a wide range of texts and argues that they provide important evidence for evolving ideas of authorship and literary authority.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Material Processes: The Glossing of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes and Fall of Princes


• 2: Authors, Translators and Commentators: Glossing Practices in Bodleian MS Fairfax 16


• 3: Exhortations to the Reader: The Double Glossing of Douglas's Eneados


• 4: Glossing the Spoken Word: Erasmus's Moriae Encomium and Thomas Chaloner's Praise of Folie


• 5: 'A Broil of Voices': The Printed Word in Baldwin's Beware the Cat and Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence


• 6: 'Masking naked in a net': George Gascoigne and Sir John Harington


• 7: 'Playing the Dolt in Print': The Extemporary Glossing of Nashe's Pierce Penilesse


• Afterword

About the author

Jane Griffiths is Tutor and Fellow in English at Wadham College, Oxford. Her first monograph, John Skelton and Poetic Authority: Defining the Liberty to Speak, was published by OUP in 2006, and her most recent collection of poetry is Terrestrial Variations (Bloodaxe, 2012).

Summary

Diverting Authorities examines literary experimentation in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It looks at marginal annotations or 'glosses' provided by authors in a wide range of texts and argues that they provide important evidence for evolving ideas of authorship and literary authority.

Additional text

Through investigating what diverting glosses reveal about the wider establishment of identifiable conventions during the first century or so of printing, Griffiths makes a valuable contribution to the study of medieval and Renaissance paratexts.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Griffiths, Jane (Tutor and Fellow in English Griffiths
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2014
• EAN: 9780199654512
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965451-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Guides > Hobby, home > Collecting, collectors' catalogues; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval