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A study of the print publication of early modern English poetry books that shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself.
List of contents
- Introduction. The Early Modern Poetry Book as an Expressive Form
- 1: Reading Printed Poetry in Early Modern England
- 2: Typography, Genre, and Authorship in The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) and Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)
- 3: Selling the Illusion of Access: Readers and Multiple Dedications in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
- 4: Poems, by J.D. (1633 and 1635), the O'Flahertie Manuscript, and the Many Careers of John Donne
- 5: 'Nor is the Printing of such Miscellanies . . . unpresidented': Poetic Authorship after Poems, by J.D. (1635)
- Conclusion. 'an ambition to be in print'
About the author
Erin A. McCarthy is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, material texts, the history of reading, and women's writing. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project 'RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700' at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This research will be the basis of a monograph jointly authored with Marie-Louise Coolahan and Sajed Chowdhury.
Summary
A study of the print publication of early modern English poetry books that shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself.
Additional text
Doubtful Readers offers a much-needed corrective to received notions about the importance of print collections of poetry in early modern Britain...Doubtful Readers is an important addition to early modern literary studies and to the understanding of the development of lyric poetry in English.
