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Doubtful readers : print, poetry, and the reading public in early modern England / Erin McCarthy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarthy, Erin, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Publishers and publishing--England--History--16th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Publishers and publishing--England--History--17th century.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print publication radically expanded the early modern reading public. These new readers, publishers feared, might not buy or like the books. Worse, their misreadings could put the authors, the publishers, or the readers themselves at risk. This text focuses on early modern publishers' efforts to identify and accommodate new readers of verse that had previously been restricted to particular social networks in manuscript.
- Contents:
- Reading printed poetry in early modern England
- Typography, genre, and authorship in The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) and Shakespeares Sonnets (1609)
- Selling the illusion of access: readers and multiple dedications in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
- Poems, by J.D. (1633 and 1635), the O'Flahertie Manuscript, and the many careers of John Donne
- "Nor is the printing of such miscellanies...unpresidented": poetic authorship after Poems, by J.D. (1635).
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-257357-8
- 0-19-187371-3
- 0-19-257356-X
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