Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge : essays in honour of Isabel Rivers / edited by Tessa Whitehouse and N.H. Keeble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitehouse, Tessa, editor.

Keeble, N. H., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Books.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognise. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability.

Contents:

Introduction / N.H. Keeble and Tessa Whitehouse

Production and dissemination: Transforming the eighteenth-century book trade: John Nourse and his bookshops on the Strand / James Raven

Friendship and eighteenth-century Nonconformist memorial publication / Tessa Whitehouse

Manuscript in the house of print: Richardson and media shift after 1700 / Thomas Keymer

Unitarian activism and the politics of the subscription library: Bury St. Edmunds in the 1790s / Christopher Reid

Authorship and editing: Rewriting the public narrative: The publishing career of Richard Baxter, 1662-96 / N.H. Keeble

Authorship and materiality in eighteenth-century collected works: The case of John Tillotson / Rosemary Dixon

Remaking verse in the eighteenth-century poetic miscellany / Abigail Williams

In good company: The business of agridgements in eighteenth-century England / Michael F. Suarez, S.J.

Reception: Editing shadows: The changing text of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson / Mark Burden

'Generous men will spare the memory of the dead': The posthumous publication of writings by Thomas Burnet / Scott Mandelbrote

Reading Henry Maundrell's sacred geography in eighteenth-century England and Germany / Simon Mills

Coleridge's Shakespearean transformation of Schiller's Wallenstein Plays / James Vigus.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-253636-2

0-19-188250-X

0-19-253635-4