Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature

Jeffrey Todd Knight

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2013

Bound to Read

Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature

Jeffrey Todd Knight

In the series Material Texts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208160

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About this book

Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.

Author / Editor information

Jeffrey Todd Knight is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington.

Reviews

"Bound to Read is an enormously learned and yet always energetically written account of book collecting practices in early modern England. Making available to our view a material history of early modern books that later practices of text collecting and transmission ignored, or worse, obliterated, Knight brilliantly challenges a set of widely held and long-cherished assumptions about reading practices, about the literature we read, and about the literary histories we depend upon."—David Scott Kastan, Yale University

"Bound to Read is meticulously researched, absolutely stuffed with new facts about fascinating old books, elegantly written, cogently argued, and a genuinely new contribution to the history of the book."—Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Compiling Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Readers
Chapter 1. Special Collections Book Curatorship and the Idea of Early Print in Libraries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2. Making Shakespeare’s Books Material Intertextuality from the Bindery to the Conservation Lab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
PART II. Writers
Chapter 3. Transformative Imitation Composing the Lyric in Liber Lilliati and Watson’s Hekatompathia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. Vernacularity and the Compiling Self in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and Montaigne’s Essays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter 5. The Custom-Made Corpus English Collected Works in Print, 1532–1623 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Epilogue. ‘‘Collated and Perfect’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 33 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 22, 2013
ISBN: 9780812208160