Screen LibraryBound to read : compilations, collections, and the making of renaissance literature /
Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Material texts
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208160 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812208160.jpg |
| Summary: |
Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 33 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208160 |
| Index Number: | Z1003 |
| CLC: | G239.561.9 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Compiling Culture -- Chapter 1. Special Collections Book Curatorship and the Idea of Early Print in Libraries -- Chapter 2. Making Shakespeare s Books -- Chapter 3. Transformative Imitation -- Chapter 4. Vernacularity and the Compiling Self in Spenser s Shepheardes Calender and Montaigne s Essays -- Chapter 5. The Custom-Made Corpus English Collected Works in Print, 1532 1623 -- Epilogue. Collated and Perfect -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |