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Bound to Read - Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)
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Bound to Read - Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)
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Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book
libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and
compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance.
In this early period of print, before the introduction of
commercial binding, most published literary texts did not stand on
shelves in discrete, standardized units. They were issued in loose
sheets or temporarily stitched-leaving it to the purchaser or
retailer to collect, configure, and bind them. In Bound to Read,
Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates this culture of compilation-of
binding and mixing texts, authors, and genres into single
volumes-and sheds light on a practice that not only was pervasive
but also defined the period's very ways of writing and thinking.
Through a combination of archival research and literary criticism,
Knight shows how Renaissance conceptions of imaginative writing
were inextricable from the material assembly of texts. While
scholars have long identified an early modern tendency to borrow
and redeploy texts, Bound to Read reveals that these strategies of
imitation and appropriation were rooted in concrete ways of
engaging with books. Knight uncovers surprising juxtapositions such
as handwritten sonnets collected with established poetry in print
and literary masterpieces bound with liturgical texts and
pamphlets. By examining works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Montaigne,
and others, he dispels the notion of literary texts as static or
closed, and instead demonstrates how the unsettled conventions of
early print culture fostered an idea of books as interactive and
malleable. Though firmly rooted in Renaissance culture, Knight's
carefully calibrated arguments also push forward to the digital
present-engaging with the modern library archives where these works
were rebound and remade, and showing how the custodianship of
literary artifacts shapes our canons, chronologies, and
contemporary interpretative practices.
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