John Donne - 21st-Century Oxford Authors

Zusatztext This edition is useful Informationen zum Autor Janel Mueller is the William Rainey Harper Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of English and the College, The University of Chicago. She is the former editor of Modern Philology and the former dean of the Division of the Humanities at Chicago. She has published on a range of subjects in English Reformation and Renaissance literature, focusing particularly on the writings of Elizabeth I and Katherine Parr. Klappentext This edition offers a new and comprehensive selection of the prose and verse of John Donne, presenting texts in their original form and ordered chronologically. Zusammenfassung The John Donne volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a wholly new edition of Donne's verse and prose. It consists of a selection of the compositions that circulated in manuscript or in print form during Donne's lifetime. In keeping with the approach of the series, the texts are presented in chronological order and the text chosen is, wherever possible, the text of the first published version. Each text is paired with a generous complement of historical and textual annotation, which enables the present day reader to access the excitement with which Donne's contemporaries, his first readers, discovered his famous and incomparable originality, audacity, ingenuity, and wit. The edition incorporates new directions and emphases in scholarly editing that are foregrounded in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, such as the history of readership and the history of texts as material objects.

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• Authors: Janel Mueller, Janel (William Rainey Harper Distinguishe Mueller
• Assisted by: Janel Mueller (Editor), Mueller Janel (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2015
• EAN: 9780199596560
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959656-0
• No. of pages: 644
• Series: 21st Century Oxford Authors; 21st Century Oxford Authors; 21st-Century Oxford Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Prose: non-fiction, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800