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The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth
and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging
articles. The essays collected here offer examinations of
bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of
texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture
genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works,
and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors
entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They
investigate how all these relationships affected the production of
print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of
books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the
formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a
bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions
from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the
interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the
afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the
subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and
textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James
Thomson's The Seasons; the "printing for the author" practice; the
illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum. Sandro Jung is
Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director
of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent
University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Colle-Bak,
Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian
Maidment, Laura L. Runge.
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Global Milton and Visual Art (Hardcover)
Angelica Duran, Mario Murgia; Contributions by Joseph Wittreich, Hiroko Sano, Ana Elena Gonzalez-Trevino, …
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R2,986
Discovery Miles 29 860
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation
and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern
English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions,
and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings,
monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It
innovates an inclusive approach to Milton's literary art,
especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary
aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary relations. The
fifteen purposefully-brief chapters, 103 illustrations, and 64
supplemental web-images reflect the great richness of the topics
and the diverse experiences and expertise of the contributors. Part
I: Panoramas, provides overviews and key contexts; Part II: Cameos
offers different perspectives of the varied afterlives of the most
widely-circulating illustrations of Paradise Lost, those by Gustave
Dore; Part III: Textual Close-ups focuses on a rich variety of book
illustrations, from centuries-old elite engravings to a
twenty-first century graphic novel; and Part IV: A Prospect beyond
Books, explores visual media outside of books that manifest
powerful connections, direct and indirect, with Milton's works and
legend.
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