Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature

✍ Scribed by Allison Deutermann; Andras Kisery (editors)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Forming literature
The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader
Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Loves Martyr
‘Divines into dry Vines’: forms of jesting in Renaissance England
Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of continuation
Part II Translations
Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England
Book, list, word: forms of translation in the work of Richard Hakluyt
Part III The matters of writing
The forms of news from France in Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI
Writings and the problem of satisfaction in Michaelmas Term
Saving souls or selling (virtual) godliness? The ‘penny godlinesses’ of John Andrewes and the problem of ‘popular puritanism’ in early Stuart England
How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney
Part IV Afterword
What’s the matter?
Index

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