Crafting poetry anthologies in Renaissance England : early modern cultures of recreation / Michelle O'Callaghan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Callaghan, Michelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Literature publishing.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Anthologies--Publishing--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Anthologies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The printed poetry anthologies first produced in sixteenth-century England have long been understood as instrumental in shaping the history of English poetry. This book offers a fresh approach to this history by turning attention to the recreative properties of these books, both in the sense of making again, of crafting and recrafting, and of poetry as a pleasurable pastime. The model of materiality employed extends from books-as-artefacts to their embodiedness - their crafted, performative, and expressive capacities. Publishers invariably advertised the recreational uses of anthologies, locating these books in early modern performance cultures in which poetry was read, silently and in company, sometimes set to music, and re-crafted into other forms. Engaging with studies of material cultures, including work on craft, households, and soundscapes, Crafting Poetry Anthologies argues for a domestic Renaissance in which anthologies travelled across social classes, shaping recreational cultures that incorporated men and women in literary culture.

Contents:

Books in Process: Songes and Sonettes and Paradyse of Daynty devises

Household Books: Richard Jones, Isabella Whitney and Anthology Making

To the Gentleman Reader: Recreating Sidney in the 1590s

Impos'd designe: Englands Helicon and Re-creative Craft

A Poetical Rapsody: Francis Davison, the Printer, and the Craft of Compilation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-86993-9

1-108-86741-3

1-108-85815-5

OCLC:

1158502936