UID:
almahu_9948126492002882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) :
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illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2016. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526111036
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9781526111029
Series Statement:
Manchester Shakespeare collection
Content:
How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature answers this question by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. It thus represents the new English Renaissance literary historiography tying literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing. The book combines studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of Shakespeare to jests and printed commonplace books. Its ten studies make important, original contributions to research on the genres of early modern literature, focusing on the involvement of literary forms in the scribal and print cultures of compilation, continuation, translation, and correspondence, as well as in matters of political republicanism and popular piety, among others. Taken together, the collection’s essays exemplify how an attention to form and matter can historicise writing without abandoning a literary focus.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2013.
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In-house editor: Matthew Frost.
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Introduction / Allison Deutermann and András Kiséry --I. Forming literature --1. The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader / Heather James --2. Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Love’s Martyr / Matthew Zarnowiecki --3. ‘Divines into dry Vines’: forms of jesting in Renaissance England / Adam Smyth --4. Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of continuation / Jeffrey Todd Knight --II. Translations --5. Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England / Tanya Pollard --6. Book, list, word: forms of translation in the work of Richard Hakluyt / Henry S. Turner --III. The matters of writing --7. The forms of news from France in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part three / Alan Stewart --8. Writings and the problem of satisfaction in Michaelmas Term / Amanda Bailey --9. Saving souls or selling (virtual) godliness? The ‘penny godlinesses’ of John Andrewes and the problem of ‘popular puritanism’ in early Stuart England / Peter Lake --10. How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney / Shankar Raman --11. Afterword / David Scott Kastan --Index.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Deutermann, Allison K.; Kiséry, András. Formal matters: reading the materials of English Renaissance literature, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2013, ISBN 9780719085536
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526111036
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526111036/9781526111036.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526111036
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