UID:
almafu_9959246026202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (417 p.)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-19-180281-6
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0-19-166832-X
Inhalt:
How and why did men and women send handwritten poetry, drama, and literary prose to their friends and social superiors in the seventeenth century-and what were the consequences of these communications? Within this culture of manuscript publication, why did John Donne (1572-1631), an author who attempted to limit the circulation of his works, become the most transcribed writer of his age? John Donne and the Conway Papers examines these questions in greatdetail. Daniel Starza Smith investigates a seventeenth-century archive, the Conway Papers, in order to explain the relationship between Donne a
Anmerkung:
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Cover; John Donne and the Conway Papers; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Editorial Conventions; Introduction: John Donne andthe Conway Papers; PART I The Conway Familyand the ConwayPapers; 1 'At length I fell in to Imagination': Sir John Conway; 2 'An honest man, who knows more about the sword than the pen': Edward, First Viscount Conway and Killultagh; 3 The Knight's Move: Conway and A Game at Chess; 4 Fide et Amore: The First Viscount Conway's Legacies
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5 'What is a Gentleman but his pleasure?' Edward, Second Viscount Conway, and Killultagh6 Booklets, Books, Ballads, and Birds: The Second Viscount Conway as Collector; 7 The Curious History of the Conway Papers; 8 Conceptualizing the Conway Papers; Part II John Donne, Sir Henry Goodere, and Manuscript Circulation; 9 Donne's Verse Letters; 10 Sir Henry Goodere, Poet and Scribe; 11 Problematum miscellaneorum: The Problems and Biathanatos, 1603-1610; 12 The Intelligence that Moves: Donne, Goodere, and Conway, 1610-1615; 13 Textual Transmission and Court Patronage in the 1620s
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14 Conflicts of Interest: Donne, Goodere, Conway, and Seventeenth-Century PatronageConclusion: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation; Appendix I: Conway and Goodere Family Trees; Appendix II: Literary Manuscripts in the Conway Papers; Works Cited; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-322-22140-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-967913-4
Sprache:
Englisch
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