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| Author | : Carly Watson |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2021-03-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030370666 |
This book is a critical study of the ancestors of contemporary poetry anthologies: the poetic miscellanies of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that miscellanies are a distinctive kind of literary collection and that their popularity in the period 1680–1800 had a far-reaching impact on authors, publishers, and readers of poetry. This study expands the definition of miscellanies to include single-author collections called miscellanies as well as the multiple-author collections that have traditionally been the focus of scholarly attention. It shows how multiple-author miscellanies fostered different kinds of literary community and explores the neglected role of single-author miscellanies in the self-fashioning of eighteenth-century writers. Later chapters examine miscellanies’ relationships with periodicals, their contribution to the formation of the literary canon, and their reception and transformation in the hands of readers. The book draws on newly available digital data as well as evidence from hundreds of printed miscellanies to shed new light on how poetry was written, published, and read in the long eighteenth century.
| Author | : Dr Daniel Starza Smith |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2014-08-28 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 1472420292 |
Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and ‘material’ reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early modern English miscellanies, anthologies, and other compilations. Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England models and refines the study of these complicated collections. Several of its contributors question and redefine the terms we use to describe miscellanies and anthologies. Two senior scholars correct the misidentification of a scribe and, in so doing, uncover evidence of a Catholic, probably Jesuit, priest and community in a trio of manuscripts. Additional contributors show compilers interpreting, attributing, and arranging texts, as well as passively accepting others’ editorial decisions. While manuscript verse miscellanies remain appropriately central to the collection, several essays also involve print and prose, ranging from letters to sermons and even political prophesies. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, the collection offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics, and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in academic studies of the history of the book.
| Author | : Jonathan David Bradbury |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2016-12-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317023927 |
Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership. His comprehensive analysis of the miscelánea corrects long-standing misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology, and erects divisions between it and other related genres. His work illuminates the relationship between the Golden Age Spanish miscellany and those of the classical world and humanist milieu, and illustrates how the vernacular tradition moved away from these forebears. Bradbury examines in particular the later inclusion of explicitly fictional components, such as poetic compositions and short prose fiction, alongside the vulgarisation of erudite or inaccessible prose material, which was the primary function of the earlier Spanish miscellanies. He tackles the flexibility of the miscelánea as a genre by assessing the conceptual, thematic and formal aspects of such works, and exploring the interaction of these features. As a result, a genre model emerges, through which Golden Age works with fragmentary and non-continuous contents can better be interpreted and classified.
| Author | : J. M. F. Heath |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2020-12-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108843425 |
An interdisciplinary study of Clement of Alexandria's Christian reception of the Classical miscellany genre, in comparison with Roman authors.
| Author | : Michael Johnston |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2015-08-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107066190 |
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
| Author | : Margaret Connolly |
| Publisher | : Proceedings of the British Aca |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780197265833 |
'Insular Books' discusses literary texts written in Anglo-French, Middle English, Older Scots, and Middle Welsh. The particular focus of the collection is one type of manuscript: the miscellany - essentially a multi-text manuscript whose contents are of a varied nature, often accumulated over time and added by different users.
| Author | : Vincent Gillespie |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2006-10 |
| Genre | : Christian literature, English (Middle) |
| ISBN | : 9780708318584 |
This volume suggests new ways of reading and thinking about the religious culture of late-medieval England. It explores an unusually wide spectrum of Latin and vernacular religious texts, from catechetic handbooks to descriptions of mystical experience, and pays particular attention to the transmission and reception of these texts. The book collects together some of Vincent Gillespie's most influential and important articles from the last twenty-five years. In addition, the author offers a substantial introduction and commentary, which looks at changes in the field, as well as suggesting further reading and areas for future research. The first section "What to Read" discusses lay access to devotional materials; the second, "How to Read," looks at vernacular texts and the modes of reading those texts facilitate and encourage, while section three, "Writing the Ineffable," considers mystical writing's affective and imaginative engagement with the ineffable.
| Author | : Wilkie Collins |
| Publisher | : London : [s.n. |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 1875 |
| Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Megan Heffernan |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2021-03-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0812252802 |
In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history. The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text. Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.
| Author | : Laura Estill |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2015-01-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1611495156 |
Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts into their commonplace books, verse miscellanies, diaries, and songbooks. This is the first book to examine these often overlooked texts, which reveal what early modern audiences and readers took, literally and figuratively, from plays.
