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  • Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen

    A Bibliographical Tribute

    Edited by Daniel Starza Smith, Hazel Wilkinson ...
    Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It brings together essays by friends and colleagues spanning some 500 years of literary history, with a strong focus on texts and the ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Print and Tourism

    Travel-Related Publications from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

    by Caroline Archer-Parré, Malcolm Dick, Hazel Wilkinson ...
    Series Book 7 - Printing History and Culture
    This volume brings together academic scholars and book industry practitioners to explore some key moments in the history of travel writing and publishing through the use of case studies about Britain or British travellers. The emphasis is on the production, distribution and consumption of print cultural artefacts and considers the social and cultural impact that printed ephemera had on particular ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book

    by Hazel Wilkinson ...
    Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–6) occupied an important place in eighteenth-century culture. Spenser influenced almost every major writer of the century, from Alexander Pope to William Wordsworth. What was it like to read Spenser in the eighteenth century? Who made Spenserian books, and how did their owners use and interpret them? The first comprehensive study of all of the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Shakespeare Circle

    An Alternative Biography

    Edited by Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells ...
    This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton are freshly considered; little-known but relevant lives are brought to the fore, and revisionist views are ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Life of William Shakespeare

    A Critical Biography

    by Lois Potter ...
    Series Book 14 - Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing.Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewerPays particular ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth

    A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book

    by Steven W. May, Arthur F. Marotti ...
    In Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth**, Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti present a recently discovered "household book" from sixteenth-century England**. Its main scribe, John Hanson, was a yeoman who worked as a legal agent in rural Yorkshire. His book, a miscellaneous collection of documents that he found useful or interesting, is a rare example of a middle-class provincial ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England

    Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation

    Edited by Andrew Gordon, Thomas Rist ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world practiced 'arts ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • At Vanity Fair

    From Bunyan to Thackeray

    by Kirsty Milne, Sharon Achinstein ...
    At Vanity Fair tells the story of Bunyan's powerful metaphor, exploring how Vanity Fair was transformed from an emblem of sin and persecution into a showcase for celebrity, wealth and power. This literary history, focusing on reception, adaptation and influence, traces the fictional representation of Vanity Fair over three centuries from John Bunyan's masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), to ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Reader in the Book

    A Study of Spaces and Traces

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Oxford English Literary History

    Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century

    by Margaret J. M. Ezell ...
    Series series Oxford English Literary History
    The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Elizabethan Top Ten

    Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores ’popularity’ in early modern English writings. Is ’popular’ best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern canonicity and early modern print popularity? How might we weight the evidence of popularity from ... Read more

    $61.99 USD