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In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England: Lyell Lectures in Bibliography

Autor Peter Beal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iul 1998
In Praise of Scribes is a major contribution to the field of manuscript studies in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This profusely illustrated book argues for the significant role played by clerks and scriveners both in contemporary society and in the transmissional history of literary texts. Specific case studies are offered of a remarkably industrious contributor to the ferment of ideas leading to the Civil War (the so-called 'Feathery Scribe'), as well as of the notorious 'Captain' Robert Julian in the Restoration period. Other case studies exemplify the wide-ranging empirical use which is to be made of material texts, and shed new light on works by Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, and Katherine Philips, writers who flourished in a manuscript culture. The book explores questions about the nature of that culture vis à vis print culture, about constructions of authorship, and about the complex nature of texts themselves in an evolving society and changing readership.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198184713
ISBN-10: 0198184719
Pagini: 339
Ilustrații: 103 reproductions of 17th-century manuscripts and printed texts
Dimensiuni: 198 x 255 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Lyell Lectures in Bibliography

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

exemplary scholarly performance... an essential guide for students of seventeenth-century written culture

Notă biografică

Author of the 3-volume Index of English Literary Manuscripts (Bowker and Mansell), which is the scholarly reference book in the field and will be known to every likely purchaser for our book.