Author: William Kuskin
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
Caxton's Trace
Author: William Kuskin
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
The Caxtons
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Languages : en
Pages : 398
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The Caxtons
Author: Lord Edward George Earle Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Caxtons, Etc
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Mirror of the World
Author: Meg Roland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000415791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000415791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the late fifteenth century, the production of print editions of Claudius Ptolemy’s second-century Geography sparked one of the most significant intellectual developments of the era—the production of mathematically-based, north-oriented maps. The production of world maps in England, however, was notably absent during this "Ptolemaic revival." As a result, the impact of Ptolemy’s text on English geographical thought has been obscured and minimalized, with scholars speculating a possible English indifference to or isolation from European geographic developments. Tracing English geographical thought through the material culture of literary and popular texts, this study provides evidence for the reception and transmission of Ptolemaic-based geography in England during a critical period of geographic innovation and synthesis, one that laid the foundation for modern geographical representation. With evidence from prose romance, book illustration, theatrical performance, cosmological ceilings, and almanacs, Mirror of the World proposes a new, interdisciplinary literary and cartographic history of the influence of Ptolemaic geography in England, one that reveals the lively integration of geographic concepts through narrative and non-cartographic visual forms.
Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books
Author: Joseph A. Dane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351961160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
In this book, Joseph Dane critiques the use of material evidence in studies of manuscript and printed books by delving into accepted notions about the study of print culture. He questions the institutional and ideological presuppositions that govern medieval studies, descriptive bibliography, and library science. Dane begins by asking what is the relation between material evidence and the abstract statements made about the evidence; ultimately he asks how evidence is to be defined. The goal of this book is to show that evidence from texts and written objects often becomes twisted to support pre-existing arguments; and that generations of bibliographers have created narratives of authorship, printing, reading, and editing that reflect romantic notions of identity, growth, and development. The first part of the book is dedicated to medieval texts and authorship: materials include Everyman, Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, the Anglo-Norman Le Seint Resurrection, and Adam de la Helle's Le Jeu de Robin et Marion. The second half of the book is concerned with abstract notions about books and scholarly definitions about what a book actually is: chapters include studies of basic bibliographical concepts ("Ideal Copy") and the application of such a notion in early editions of Chaucer, the combination of manuscript and printing in the books of Colard Mansion, and finally, examples of the organization of books by an early nineteenth-century book-collector Leander Van Ess. This study is an important contribution to debates about the nature of bibliography and the critical institutions that have shaped its current practice.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351961160
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
In this book, Joseph Dane critiques the use of material evidence in studies of manuscript and printed books by delving into accepted notions about the study of print culture. He questions the institutional and ideological presuppositions that govern medieval studies, descriptive bibliography, and library science. Dane begins by asking what is the relation between material evidence and the abstract statements made about the evidence; ultimately he asks how evidence is to be defined. The goal of this book is to show that evidence from texts and written objects often becomes twisted to support pre-existing arguments; and that generations of bibliographers have created narratives of authorship, printing, reading, and editing that reflect romantic notions of identity, growth, and development. The first part of the book is dedicated to medieval texts and authorship: materials include Everyman, Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, the Anglo-Norman Le Seint Resurrection, and Adam de la Helle's Le Jeu de Robin et Marion. The second half of the book is concerned with abstract notions about books and scholarly definitions about what a book actually is: chapters include studies of basic bibliographical concepts ("Ideal Copy") and the application of such a notion in early editions of Chaucer, the combination of manuscript and printing in the books of Colard Mansion, and finally, examples of the organization of books by an early nineteenth-century book-collector Leander Van Ess. This study is an important contribution to debates about the nature of bibliography and the critical institutions that have shaped its current practice.
Printers without Borders
Author: A. E. B. Coldiron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107073170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This book explores how England's first printers transformed English Renaissance literary culture by collaborating with translators to reshape foreign texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107073170
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This book explores how England's first printers transformed English Renaissance literary culture by collaborating with translators to reshape foreign texts.
The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer
Author: William Blades
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Life and Typography of William Caxton ; England's First Printer, with Evidence of His Typographical Connection
Author: William Blades
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Life and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, with Evidence of His Typographical Connection with Colard Mansion, the Printer at Bruges
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Category : Bruges (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Publisher:
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Category : Bruges (Belgium)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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