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Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (Hardcover)
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Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
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Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores
the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in
the decades following incorporation of the Stationers' Company in
1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of
bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard Smith, and Paul Linley, Kirk
Melnikoff tracks the crucial role that bookselling publishers
played in transmitting literary texts into print as well as
energizing and shaping a new sphere of vernacular literary
activity. The volume provides an overview of the full range of
practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of
copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, reissuing, and
specialization. Four case studies together consider links between
translation and the travel narrative; bookselling and authorship;
re-issuing and the Ovidian narrative poem; and specialization and
professional drama. Works considered include Shakespeare's Hamlet,
Thevet's The New Found World, Constable's Diana, and Marlowe's
Dido, Queen of Carthage. This exciting new book provides both a
complement and a counter to recent studies that have turned back to
authors and out to buyers and printing houses as makers of
vernacular literary culture in the second half of the sixteenth
century.
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