While authors in early modern England were gaining new authority -
legally, economically and symbolically - Renaissance readers also
were expected to participate in and make use of an author's
writings. In this book, Stephen B. Dobranski examines how the
seventeenth-century phenomenon of printing apparently unfinished
works ushered in a new emphasis on authors' responsibility for
written texts while it simultaneously reinforced Renaissance
practices of active reading. Bringing together textual studies,
literary criticism and book trade history, Dobranski provides fresh
insight into Renaissance constructions of authorship and offers
discerning interpretations of publications by Sir Philip Sidney,
Ben Jonson, John Donne, Robert Herrick and John Milton. The
omissions in all these writers' works provide a unique window into
English literary history: through these blank spaces we glimpse the
tension between implication and inference, between writers'
intentions and readers' responses and between an individual author
and a collaborative community.
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