Title Elizabethan publishing and the makings of literary culture / Kirk Melnikoff

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in book and print culture Studies in book and print culture. Contents Geldings, "prettie inuentions," and "plaine knauery" -- Thomas Hacket, translation, and the wonders of the New World travel narrative -- Richard Smith's browsables: A Hundreth Sundry Flowers (1573), The Fabulous Tales of Aesop (1577), and Diana (1592, 1594?) -- Flasket and Linley's The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage (1594): reissuing the Elizabethan epyllion -- Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism Summary Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers'Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard Smith, and Paul Linley, Kirk Melnikoff tracks the crucial role that bookselling publishers played in transmitting literary texts into print as well as energizing and shaping a new sphere of vernacular literary activity. The volume provides an overview of the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, reissuing, and specialization. Four case studies together consider links between translation and the travel narrative; bookselling and authorship; re-issuing and the Ovidian narrative poem; and specialization and professional drama. Works considered include Shakespeare's Hamlet, Thévet's The New Found World, Constable's Diana, and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. This exciting new book provides both a complement and a counter to recent studies that have turned back to authors and out to buyers and printing houses as makers of vernacular literary culture in the second half of the sixteenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-279) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Englisch ... gnd Subject Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century Publishers and publishing -- England -- History -- 16th century Printing -- England -- History -- 16th century Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 16th century Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- 16th century Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century Books -- History -- 16th century LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism. HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century. Book industries and trade Books Intellectual life Literature and society Literature publishing Printing Publishers and publishing Transmission of texts Buchhandel Literatur Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century. Publishers and publishing -- England -- History -- 16th century. Literature publishing -- England -- History -- 16th century. Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century. SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043301 Subject England England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487514938 148751493X

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