Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture

Outlining the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, and reissuing, Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture considers links between the book trade and the literary culture of Elizabethan England.

List of contents

1. Geldings, "prettie inuentions," and "plaine knauery": Elizabethan Book-Trade Publishing Practices
2. Thomas Hacket, Translation, and the Wonders of the New World Travel Narrative
3. Richard Smith’s Browsibles: A Hundreth Sundry Flowers (1573), The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577), and Diana (1592, 1594?)
4. Flasket and Linley’s The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage (1594): Reissuing the Elizabethan Epyllion
5. Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism

About the author

Kirk Melnikoff is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Summary

Outlining the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, and reissuing, Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture considers links between the book trade and the literary culture of Elizabethan England.

Product details

• Authors: Kirk Melnikoff, Professor Kirk Melnikoff
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781487502232
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0223-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries