Formal matters : reading the materials of English Renaissance literature / edited by Allison K. Deutermann and András Kiséry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deutermann, Allison K., editor.

Kiséry, András, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

The essays in this collection explore the intersection between literary and material forms of writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history.

Contents:

Cover

Formal matters

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Forming literature

1 The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader

2 Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Loves Martyr

3 'Divines into dry Vines': forms of jesting in Renaissance England

4 Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of continuation

Part II: Translations

5 Greek playbooks and dramatic forms in early modern England

6 Book, list, word: forms of translation in the work of Richard Hakluyt

Part III: The matters of writing

7 The forms of news from France in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI

8 Writings and the problem of satisfaction in Michaelmas Term

9 Saving souls or selling (virtual) godliness? The 'penny godlinesses' of John Andrewes and the problem of 'popular puritanism' in early Stuart England

10 How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney

Part IV: Afterword

What's the matter?

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526111029

1526111020

9781781707173

1781707170