Description
Renaissance poetry anthologies were crafted within the book trade and re-crafted through performance, transforming Early Modern cultures of recreation.
About the Author
Michelle O'Callaghan is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture and director of the Early Modern Research Centre at the University of Reading. Her books include The Shepheards Nation: Jacobean Spenserians and Early Stuart Political Culture, 1612-1625 (2000), The English Wits: Literature and Sociability in Early Modern England (2007) and Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist (2009).
Reviews
'Erudite, meticulously researched, and still inviting to readers, this book elegantly threads the needle posed by both a new historicist interest in texts in context and material cultural studies of textual production and use ... In its attention to a powerful craft that encompasses multiple kinds of poetic making in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it challenges our inherited sense of what the Renaissance was and how we ought to read it now.' Megan Heffernan, Modern Philology
'... a recognisable type of early modern book.' Megan Heffernan, Modern Philology
'offer[s] a new vision of the poetic miscellanies of this period.' Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement
'This illuminating volume will be valuable for many readers with interests in this period.' Sheila T. Cavanagh, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Book Information
ISBN 9781108792202
Author Michelle O'Callaghan
Format Paperback
Page Count 261
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 384g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm