Formal Matters - Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature (Hardcover, New)

How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production? Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature answers this question by linking formalist analysis with the insights of book history. It thus represents the new English Renaissance literary historiography tying literary composition to the materials and material practices of writing. The book combines studies of familiar and lesser known texts, from the poems and plays of Shakespeare to jests and printed commonplace books. Its ten studies make important, original contributions to research on the genres of early modern literature, focusing on the involvement of literary forms in the scribal and print cultures of compilation, continuation, translation, and correspondence, as well as in matters of political republicanism and popular piety, among others. Taken together, the collection's essays exemplify how an attention to form and matter can historicise writing without abandoning a literary focus. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	July 2013
Editors:	Allison Deutermann • Andras Kisery
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-8553-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-7190-8553-5
Barcode:	9780719085536

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