A Concise Companion to the Study of Manuscripts, Printed Books, and the Production of Early Modern Texts: A Festschrift for Gordon Campbell

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Year of Publication
2015
Author
Editor: Edward Jones
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Number of Pages
366 pp.
Publisher
John Wiley
City
Malden, MA
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ISBN
9781118635292
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Contents: 

Part 1. Manuscript Studies. Stanford University's Cavendish manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton / Elaine Treharne 

  • Texts presented to Elizabeth I on the university progresses / Sarah Knight
  • Analysing a private library, with a shelf-list attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 / William Poole
  • Young Milton in his letters / John K. Hale
  • The itinerant sibling : Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk / Edward Jones
  • Milton, the attentive Mr Skinner, and the acts and discourses of friendship / Cedric C. Brown 

Part 2. Printed Books. Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 / Neil Harris 

  • Tyranny and tragicomedy in Milton's reading of The tempest / Karen L. Edwards
  • The earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland / Thomas N. Corns
  • The ghost of rhetoric: Milton's logic and the Renaissance trivium / Jameela Lares 

Part 3. Production, Dissemination, Appropriation. Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The absolute knave' / John Creaser 

  • Reliquiae Baxterianae and the shaping of the seventeenth century / N.H. Keeble
  • Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 / Martin Dzelzainis
  • Did Milton read Selden? / Sharon Achinstein
  • Hands on / Neil Forsyth
  • Shakespeare with a difference: dismembering and remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus / Pascale Aebischer
  • By ferry, foot, and fate: a tour in the Hebrides / Andrew McNeillie