The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

Author: Richard Gameson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 964

ISBN-13: 9780521661829

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Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain covers the years between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. In a period marked by deep religious divisions, civil war and the uneasy settlement of the Restoration, printed texts - important as they were for disseminating religious and political ideas, both heterodox and state approved - interacted with oral and manuscript cultures. These years saw a growth in reading publics, from the developing mass market in almanacs, ABCs, chapbooks, ballads and news, to works of instruction and leisure. Atlases, maps and travel literature overlapped with the popular market but were also part of the project of empire. Alongside the creation of a literary canon and the establishment of literary publishing there was a tradition of dissenting publishing, while women's writing and reading became increasingly visible.

The Cambridge Companion to John Donne
The Cambridge Companion to John Donne

Author: Achsah Guibbory

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-02-02

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1107494869

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The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.

Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes
Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes

Author: Rosalind Edwards

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1784715255

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This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the analytic value of a range of ‘by-products’ of social research and reading. These include electronically captured paradata on survey administration, notes written in the margins of research documents and literary texts, and fieldnotes and ephemera produced by social researchers. Revealing the relational nature of paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes, contributions examine how the craft of studying and analysing these by-products offers insight into the intellectual, social and ethical processes underpinning the activities of research and reading.

The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

Author: David Bevington

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-11-19

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780521594363

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A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts
New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts

Author: Peter Beal

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts explores both newly discovered manuscripts and new aspects of known manuscript writings by a number of major early modern authors—including genres such as commonplace books, sermons, unpublished poems, and previously unrecognized printer’s copies. The thirteen essays collected in the volume shed new light on already notable texts and add fresh research approaches to issues of authorship, scribal transmission, and compilation practices.

English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700
English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700

Author: Peter Beal

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780802005717

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Encompassing the study of manuscripts produced in the British Isles between the Conquest and the end of the seventeenth century, this series provides a forum for the interdisciplinary investigation of both medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

Author: David Colclough

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-04-07

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521847483

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Attending to the importance of context and decorum, this major contribution to Ideas in Context recovers a tradition of free speech that has been obscured in studies of the evolution of universal rights."--BOOK JACKET.