Literary Folios and Ideas of the Book in Early Modern England

This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.

List of contents

1. Samuel Daniel's Works and the History of the Book 2. Ben Jonson's Workes 3. John Taylor and the Commercial Folio

About the author

Francis X. Connor is an Assistant Professor of English at Wichita State University, USA.

Summary

This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.

Additional text

“Francis Connor’s
detailed and well-researched monograph therefore charts the publication of
literary folios from the private, elite coteries to the public, commercial sphere;
through this progression, ideas of the book evolved and were negotiated in
early modern England—indeed, the chapter divisions reflect this. … Connor’s
monograph adds to the significant corpus of book-history research … .” (Jocelyn
Hargrave, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

Report

"Francis Connor's detailed and well-researched monograph therefore charts the publication of literary folios from the private, elite coteries to the public, commercial sphere; through this progression, ideas of the book evolved and were negotiated in early modern England-indeed, the chapter divisions reflect this. ... Connor's monograph adds to the significant corpus of book-history research ... ." (Jocelyn Hargrave, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

Product details

• Authors: F Connor, F. Connor
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9781349493913
• ISBN: 978-1-349-49391-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: History of Text Technologies; History of Text Technologies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, History, European History, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, England;history;history of literature