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This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual
editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have
hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields
of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together
contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the
transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the
use of individual sections relevant to period literature courses,
the book offers students and teachers a set of essays designed to
reflect these approaches and to signal their potential for fruitful
integration. Some of the essays answer the demand "Show me what
literary critics (or textual editor; or book historians) do and how
they do it", and stand as examples of the different concerns,
methodologies and strategies employed. Others draw attention to the
potential of the approaches in combination.
This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual
editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have
hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields
of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together
contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the
transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the
use of individual sections relevant to period literature courses,
the book offers students and teachers a set of essays designed to
reflect these approaches and to signal their potential for fruitful
integration. Some of the essays answer the demand "Show me what
literary critics (or textual editor; or book historians) do and how
they do it", and stand as examples of the different concerns,
methodologies and strategies employed. Others draw attention to the
potential of the approaches in combination.
Among the mountains that flank the Klamath River, the home of the
legendary Sasquatch, there still lives a people that
anthropologists believe to be descendants of the original
inhabitants of California. The Karuk, in this northernmost
wilderness, developed a culture known for exquisite baskets, wood
carvings, and expressive ceremonies. A book suited to both scholar
and layman.
Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain covers the
years between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557
and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. In a period marked by
deep religious divisions, civil war and the uneasy settlement of
the Restoration, printed texts - important as they were for
disseminating religious and political ideas, both heterodox and
state approved - interacted with oral and manuscript cultures.
These years saw a growth in reading publics, from the developing
mass market in almanacs, ABCs, chapbooks, ballads and news, to
works of instruction and leisure. Atlases, maps and travel
literature overlapped with the popular market but were also part of
the project of empire. Alongside the creation of a literary canon
and the establishment of literary publishing there was a tradition
of dissenting publishing, while women's writing and reading became
increasingly visible.
The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London
Book Trade 1641-1700 presents abstracts of documents relating to
the book trade and book production between 1641 and 1700. It brings
together in one sequence edited abstracts of entries referring to
named books, printers, and booksellers selected from the
manuscripts of the Stationers' Company Court Books; all references
to printing, publishing, bookselling, and the book trade occurring
in major historical printed sources (Calendar of State Papers
Domestic; the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Reports
of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts) ; and entries
for contemporary pamphlets. The labour records of the printing and
bookselling trades probably represent the fullest account of any
work force in early modern England and the printed products of the
trade survive in such great numbers that they enable us to examine
them for evidence not only of who made and sold them but also of
how they were made. These volumes constitute a reference work of
importance not only for literature specialists, bibliographers, and
historians of book production but also for economic, social, and
political historians. Not only do they bring together records from
a variety of separate printed sources, thereby making explicit
their interconnections, but also they make accessible some less
well-known manuscript sources, notably from the Stationers' Company
archives. Most importantly the Chronology and Calendar extends the
earlier work of Arber, Greg, and Jackson on the earlier seventeenth
century. As a chronological sequence the volumes meet the need for
a preliminary narrative history of the trade in the later
seventeenth century; and the provision of title, name, and topic
indexes renders this an indispensable reference tool for research
into the social, political, and economic contexts of the book
trade, its personnel, and its printed output.
The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London
Book Trade 1641-1700 presents abstracts of documents relating to
the book trade and book production between 1641 and 1700. It brings
together in one sequence edited abstracts of entries referring to
named books, printers, and booksellers selected from the
manuscripts of the Stationers' Company Court Books; all references
to printing, publishing, bookselling, and the book trade occurring
in major historical printed sources (Calendar of State Papers
Domestic; the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Reports
of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts) ; and entries
for contemporary pamphlets. The labour records of the printing and
bookselling trades probably represent the fullest account of any
work force in early modern England and the printed products of the
trade survive in such great numbers that they enable us to examine
them for evidence not only of who made and sold them but also of
how they were made. These volumes constitute a reference work of
importance not only for literature specialists, bibliographers, and
historians of book production but also for economic, social, and
political historians. Not only do they bring together records from
a variety of separate printed sources, thereby making explicit
their interconnections, but also they make accessible some less
well-known manuscript sources, notably from the Stationers' Company
archives. Most importantly the Chronology and Calendar extends the
earlier work of Arber, Greg, and Jackson on the earlier seventeenth
century. As a chronological sequence the volumes meet the need for
a preliminary narrative history of the trade in the later
seventeenth century; and the provision of title, name, and topic
indexes renders this an indispensable reference tool for research
into the social, political, and economic contexts of the book
trade, its personnel, and its printed output.
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