A Catalogue of the Libraries of Edward Webbe ... Alexander Davie ... Francis Carrington ... Lady Mary Worsley
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1751
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
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Author : Thomas Osborne
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
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Author : T. Osborne
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 1750
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Author : Leah Orr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192886312
In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 seeks to uncover how exactly this happened and the ways publishers tried to market a new kind of author to the public. Based on a survey of nearly seven hundred works with female authors from this period, this book contends that authorship was constructed, not always by the author, for market appeal, that biography often supported an authorial persona rooted in the genre of the work, and that authorship was a role rather than an identity. Through an emphasis on paratexts, including prefaces, title pages, portraits, and biographical notes, Leah Orr analyses the representation of women writers in this period of intense change to make two related arguments. First, women writers were represented in a variety of ways as publishers sought successful models for a new kind of writer in print. Second, a new approach is needed for studying early women writers and others who occupy gaps in the historical record. This book shows that a study of the material contexts of printed books is one way to work with the evidence that survives. It therefore begins with a very familiar kind of author-centric literary history and deconstructs it to conclude with a reception-centered history that takes a more encompassing view of authorship. In addition to analysis of many little-known and anonymous authors, case studies include Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter/Cockburn, Laetitia Pilkington, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, and Anne Dacier.
Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107783097
Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem and contextualizes its first modernization. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched.
Author : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Early printed books
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bibliography
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Item forms a comprehensive list of the British Museum, Department of Printed Books collection of catalogues of books sales and auctions held between 1676, the first time books were sold at aution in England, until the end of the ninteenth century.
Author : Bernhard Fabian
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Page : 448 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : Edinburgh University Library
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Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107043638
A revisionary account of the powerful myths that grew up around the production and reception of the great medieval poem. Also available as Open Access.