The Commodification of Textual Engagements in the English RenaissanceRoutledge, 5 dec. 2016 - 182 sidor An investigation into the ways in which early modern books were advertised, this study argues that those means of advertisement both record and help to shape social interactions between people and books. These interactions are not only fascinating in themselves, but also demonstrably linked to larger social phenomena, such as human commodification, the development of English nationalism, the increasingly unruly proliferation of literacy, and changing conceptions of literature. Within the context of recent developments of new textualism and new economic criticism, Saenger's approach makes use of formalist strategies of genre recognition as well as new historicist connections between social history and art. In this study Saenger illustrates his general account of the formal properties of front matter-titles and subtitles, prefatory epistles, and commendatory verses-with engaging readings of specific examples, including Feltham's Resolves, A Myrrovre for Magistrates, and Sidney's Arcadia. He explores the several ways in which paratextual authors sought to involve the reader in various active roles vis à vis the main text, whether those books were prose fiction or translated continental sermons. Some particular attention is devoted to printed drama, both because dramatic texts present printers with a unique set of challenges and because those texts have often been misread in recent criticism. This book offers a much-needed analysis of profound transformations-not only to the book trade as an industry, but also to the very concepts of reading and authorship-in an age which saw the relatively brief coincidence of ancient marketing strategies and systems and the burgeoning market of the mechanically reproduced text. |
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... publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Saenger ...
... publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Saenger ...
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... Publisher Critical Approaches to Front Matter The Sliding Edge of Textuality The Rhetoric of Authorship 2 The Antechambers of the English Book: A Survey of Front Matter Titles and Subtitles Prefatory Epistles A Gift for Sale: the ...
... Publisher Critical Approaches to Front Matter The Sliding Edge of Textuality The Rhetoric of Authorship 2 The Antechambers of the English Book: A Survey of Front Matter Titles and Subtitles Prefatory Epistles A Gift for Sale: the ...
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... publishers for permission to reprint material from: “The Birth of Advertising,” in Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England, ed. Douglas Brooks. Reprinted with permission of Ashgate Publishing. “Pericles and the Burlesque of ...
... publishers for permission to reprint material from: “The Birth of Advertising,” in Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England, ed. Douglas Brooks. Reprinted with permission of Ashgate Publishing. “Pericles and the Burlesque of ...
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... publishers and consumers, thus offering an opportunity to historicize the (peculiarly active) experience of a person ... publisher, the author, the translator, and fictional, mythological, or religious characters. Relationships involving ...
... publishers and consumers, thus offering an opportunity to historicize the (peculiarly active) experience of a person ... publisher, the author, the translator, and fictional, mythological, or religious characters. Relationships involving ...
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... publishers, authors and booksellers) and their buyers. We have a far greater record of one side of this conversation (what publishers printed) than the other (what readers did to books)10—in this we are in a position much like that of a ...
... publishers, authors and booksellers) and their buyers. We have a far greater record of one side of this conversation (what publishers printed) than the other (what readers did to books)10—in this we are in a position much like that of a ...
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A Survey of Front | |
the Epistle Dedicatory | |
Personified | 79 |
The Role of the Author | 40 |
The Transformation of Liminality and Birth of | 9 |
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