Bound to Read : : Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature / / Jeffrey Todd Knight.
Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of commercial binding, most published literary texts di...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 33 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Compiling Culture
- PART I. Readers
- Chapter 1. Special Collections Book Curatorship and the Idea of Early Print in Libraries
- Chapter 2. Making Shakespeare's Books
- PART II. Writers
- Chapter 3. Transformative Imitation
- Chapter 4. Vernacularity and the Compiling Self in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender and Montaigne's Essays
- Chapter 5. The Custom-Made Corpus English Collected Works in Print, 1532-1623
- Epilogue. ''Collated and Perfect''
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments