Thinking with Ferrar Papers 1422: a ca. 1681 verse miscellany
June 2020
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Journal article
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Library
This article explores a late seventeenth-century manuscript verse miscellany held amongst the Ferrar Papers in Magdalene College, Cambridge, not previously discussed by critics. By attending to both the specific features of this manuscript miscellany (including poems by John Dryden, Katherine Philips. and others), and the larger Ferrar archive, the article considers broader questions about how to read and interpret manuscript miscellanies.
FFR
Diaries
January 2020
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714
Book Parts
June 2019
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Edited book
What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it at the front and back of the book, there are dozens of other texts—page numbers and running heads, copyright statements and errata lists—each possessed of particular conventions, each with their own lively histories. To consider these paratexts—recalling them from the margins, letting them take centre stage—is to be reminded that no book is the sole work of the author whose name appears on the cover; rather, every book is the sum of a series of collaborations. It is to be reminded, also, that not everything is intended for us, the readers. There are sections that are solely directed at others—binders, librarians, lawyers—parts of the book that, if they are working well, are working discreetly, like a theatrical prompt, whispering out of the audience's ear-shot
Book Parts is a bold and imaginative intervention in the fast growing field of book history: it pulls the book apart. Over twenty-two chapters, Book Parts tells the story of the components of the book: from title pages to endleaves; from dust jackets to indexes—and just about everything in between.
Book Parts covers a broad historical range that runs from the pre-print era to the digital, bringing together the expertise of some of the most exciting scholars working on book history today in order to shine a new light on these elements hiding in plain sight in the books we all read.
13 March 1911
March 2019
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Book
Material Texts in Early Modern England
January 2018
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Book
What was a book in early modern England? By combining book history, bibliography and literary criticism, Material Texts in Early Modern England explores how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books were stranger, richer things than scholars have imagined. Adam Smyth examines important aspects of bibliographical culture which have been under-examined by critics: the cutting up of books as a form of careful reading; book destruction and its relation to canon formation; the prevalence of printed errors and the literary richness of mistakes; and the recycling of older texts in the bodies of new books, as printed waste. How did authors, including Herbert, Jonson, Milton, Nashe and Cavendish, respond to this sense of the book as patched, transient, flawed, and palimpsestic? Material Texts in Early Modern England recovers these traits and practices, and so crucially revises our sense of what a book was, and what a book might be.
Literary Criticism
Book marks: Object traces in early modern books
January 2018
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Chapter
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Early Modern English Marginalia
Over the past three decades, work on early modern literature has been animated by a number of influential studies of handwritten annotations in books, works that take as their subject the manicules, the underlinings, the trefoils, the disputatious hecklings that light up many early modern pages. 1 Indeed, such has been the influence of this area of study that questions about the reception of texts via the category of the historical reader have become one of the dominant ways of responding to early modern texts, enacted at all levels of study, from undergraduate essays to scholarly monographs. But like all active fields of enquiry, work in this field is also characterized by a number of unresolved questions and problems, and I hope in this chapter to bring some of these to the critical surface. The subject of this chapter is not handwritten annotations but the marks or remnants of objects left in books, the subject of little sustained scholarly discussion, except for a suggestive but brief exhibition catalogue by Roger Stoddard in 1985. 2 As I hope to show, thinking about these beguiling but also unyielding traces can help us approach the larger field of book annotations afresh. The troubling status of object marks can help clarify some of the assumptions that have underpinned work on marginalia more generally.
A History of English Autobiography
April 2016
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Book
This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.
Literary Criticism
Introduction: the range, limits and potentials of the form
April 2016
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Chapter
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A History of English Autobiography
Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered writings of such diverse authors as Chaucer, Bunyan, Carlyle, Newman, Wilde and Woolf.
Autobiography
Money, accounting and life-writing, 1600–1700: balancing a life
April 2016
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Chapter
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A History of English Autobiography
This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.
Literary Criticism
Almanacs
March 2016
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Chapter
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The Elizabethan Top Ten Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England
If methodological and ideological questions dog contemporary best-seller lists,
where publication and sales data are relatively robust, they are multiplied when
turning to the question of print popularity in the Elizabethan period. This book ...
Literary Criticism
Little Clippings: Cutting and Pasting Bibles in the 1630s
September 2015
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Journal article
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Special Issue
January 2015
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Other
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
September 2014
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Book
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing ...
Literary Criticism
"Ha, ha, ha”: Shakespeare and the Edge of Laughter
November 2013
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Chapter
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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England
These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics.
Literary Criticism
‘Divines into dry Vines’: forms of jesting in Renaissance England
July 2013
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Chapter
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Formal Matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature
Literary Collections
Diaries
July 2013
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Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640
The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only available overview of early modern English prose writing.
History
"There is a world elsewhere”: Imagining The Globe Through Popular Print
February 2013
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Chapter
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A Companion to the Global Renaissance English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion
... 2005) and (with Andrew Hadfield) of The Religions of the Book: Christian
Perceptions, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008). ... He is also the editor of Amazons,
Savages and Machiavels: An Anthology of Travel and Colonial Writing, 1550-
1650 ...
Literary Criticism
“Shreds of holinesse”: George Herbert, Little Gidding, and Cutting Up Texts in Early Modern England [with illustrations]
September 2012
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Journal article
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English Literary Renaissance
Henry Peacham
January 2012
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Chapter
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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature P - Z.
Lancelot Andrewes
January 2012
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Chapter
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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature A - F.
Thomas Dekker
January 2012
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Chapter
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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature A - F.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Scissors
November 2011
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Chapter
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Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories
Autobiography in Early Modern England
August 2010
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Book
Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Literary Criticism
Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits
January 2010
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Chapter
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Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650 The Domestication of Print Culture
Essays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process.
Literary Criticism
Tavern and Library: Working with Ben Jonson
January 2009
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Chapter
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Authors at Work The Creative Environment
How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors are examined in this collection.
Language Arts & Disciplines
Almanacs, Annotators, and Life‐Writing in Early Modern England1
March 2008
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Journal article
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English Literary Renaissance
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
"Reade in one age and understood i'th'next": Recycling Satire in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
March 2006
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Journal article
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Huntington Library Quarterly
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
"Art Reflexive": The Poetry, Sermons, and Drama of William Strode (1601 -1645)
January 2006
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Journal article
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Studies in Philology
‘Rend and teare in peeces’: Textual Fragmentation in Seventeenth-Century England
March 2004
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Journal article
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The Seventeenth Century
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
A Pleasing Sinne Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-century England
January 2004
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Book
Studies of the representation and understanding of drink and conviviality in diverse social contexts.
Literary Criticism
Textual Transmission, Reception and the Editing of Early Modern Texts1
January 2004
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Journal article
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Literature Compass
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
"Profit and Delight" Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682
January 2004
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Book
The first sustained study of seventeenth-century printed miscellanies.
Literary Criticism
"Such a general itching after booke-learning”: Popular Readers of Elite Texts
January 2003
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Journal article
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Yearbook of English Studies
An Online Index of Verse in Printed Miscellanies, 1640-1682
May 2002
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Journal article
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Early Modern Literary Studies: a journal of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature
Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682: “store-house[s] of wit"
January 2000
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Journal article
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Criticism: a quarterly for literature and the arts
Critical Quarterly Special Issue
Other
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Critical Quarterly
Cutting and authorship in early modern England
Journal article
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Authorship
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies