Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book PDF Author: Hazel Wilkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107199557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.

Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book PDF Author: Hazel Wilkinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107199557
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.

Edmund Spenser in the Early Eighteenth Century

Edmund Spenser in the Early Eighteenth Century PDF Author: Richard C. Frushell
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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This book is a compelling investigation of a major writer's advent, reception, employment, growth, and influence in an age other than his own. Frushell explores many pertinent and largely unexamined primary documents, and this study serves as a primer for future critical scholarship as well as a guide to crucial primary material. A remarkable feature of this work is its three bibliographies, with the third giving a full account of well over 300 Spenser imitations and adaptations from the eighteenth century.

Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569-1679

Edmund Spenser and the History of the Book, 1569-1679 PDF Author: Steven K. Galbraith
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Category : Books
Languages : en
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Abstract: This dissertation fills the critical void on the history of Spenser and his editions. Applying the critical methods of the History of the Book, I situate each of Spenser's editions published from 1569 through 1679 within the context of its contemporary print culture. I study each edition's physical makeup, typography, format, and production history. Additionally, I investigate the lives of the various printers, publishers, booksellers, and editors who had a hand in producing the books. From the evidence I collect, I construct arguments concerning Spenser's relationship with the printing trade, his readership, and his literary reputation. The first chapter examines Spenser's interactions with books and the book trade during his youth and how these interactions helped shape his literary career. The second chapter demonstrates how The Shepheardes Calender (1579) deviated from its Italian bibliographic model by substituting italic type with black-letter or "English" type. The choice of "English" type supported the book's promotion of the English language and literature. The third chapter argues that Spenser and his printer helped position The Faerie Queene (1590) within the epic tradition by imitating the appearance of contemporary editions of classical and Italian epics. The fourth chapter examines Spenser's first folio (1611-c.1625), demonstrating that it was not a monument to the author, as were contemporary folios, but rather a cheaply produced book sold in sections. The fifth chapter reexamines the manuscript and printing history of A View of the Present State of Ireland. The final chapter argues that for many seventeenth-century readers, Spenser's deliberately archaic language had grown too obscure, resulting in efforts to regularize his works. Spenser's literary reputation was momentarily rehabilitated in 1679, when, during a time in which reprints made up a large percentage of English books, Spenser's works returned to folio and set the stage for a minor eighteenth-century rebirth.

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 1

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 1 PDF Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379357292
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T139900 In: 'The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill', Bell's edition, London, printed for John Bell'. With engraved collective titlepages dated 1778. Each volume has an additional letterpress titlepage. Colophons dated: 1778. With a sli Edinburg: at the Apollo Press, by the Martins. Anno, 1778. 8v., plates: port.; 18°

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 6

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 6 PDF Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379357346
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Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T139900 In: 'The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill', Bell's edition, London, printed for John Bell'. With engraved collective titlepages dated 1778. Each volume has an additional letterpress titlepage. Colophons dated: 1778. With a sli Edinburg: at the Apollo Press, by the Martins. Anno, 1778. 8v., plates: port.; 18°

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 3

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 3 PDF Author: EDMUND. SPENSER
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385222966
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Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Libraries N012065 In: 'The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill', Bell's edition, London, printed for John Bell'. With engraved collective titlepages dated 1778. Each volume has an additional letterpress titlepage. Vols.3-8 are dated 1788. London: printed under the direction of J. Bell, 1787-88. 8v., plates: port.; 18°

The Faerie Queene. by Edmund Spenser. with an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, ... to Which Are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and Also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-Two Copper-Plates of 3; Volume 2

The Faerie Queene. by Edmund Spenser. with an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, ... to Which Are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and Also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-Two Copper-Plates of 3; Volume 2 PDF Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385541432
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Languages : en
Pages : 460

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T035152 Sig. Eee is present in duplicate in vol.I. The 'life' is by T. Birch. The 'Proposals for printing by subscription, The faerie queene' were issued on 1 July 1751. London: printed for J. Brindley, and S. Wright, 1751. 3v., plates; 4°

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser PDF Author: Herbert Ellsworth Cory
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266190035
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Excerpt from Edmund Spenser: A Critical Study In such days as these, literary criticism seems trivially remote. But I have been compelled to be loyal to this task by my belief that the two unequivocally reconstructive forces in the world today are the labor movement and those sciences of human society which are just beginning to organize after a fashion similar to that achieved by the once bickering sciences of biology which were at last reconciled and made to move in concert by Darwin. Literature at present has but a tenuous relation with either reconstructive force. But to make an effort, however greping, to merge it organically in both is to obey a categorical imperative. If literary criticism is to exonerate itself from parasitism, from triviality and pedantry in the community of new sciences of man like psychology and ethnology, it must assume a task which is epical in its requirements. First of all it must examine its philosophical implications, particularly those limitations and emancipations revealed by an examination of the problem of consciousness, the problem of knowledge, and logic. And it must make its results as far as possible the coherent fruition of the best that has been thought and said on the topic under con sideration by all the critics of previous ages. Today, although we all recognize the perils of impressionism in literature and long for some sort of restoration of judicial balance, there are nowhere apparent any a priori esthetic canons or even neces sities of thought as distinct from the general necessities of the pure reason and the practical reason long ago established by Kant. But these provide us with nothing like those eternal principles of taste in which the critics of the renaissance and the eighteenth century believed unless we choose to pervert Kant with an admixture of dogma as do some of his professed followers in the realm of metaphysics. As literary men, in an age when all kinds of traditions are on trial, we can avoid irresponsible impressionism only by what has been termed collective criti cism. In consequence I have felt obliged to make my book empirical in the sense that it is an attempt to come to certain conclusions about Spenser only on the basis of a vast number of experiences of other readers of Spenser in every decade from 1579 to 1917. These conclusions of mine may at first sight appear to be iconoclastic; but I think that careful considerationwill show them to have grown with a logical and almost bio logical continuity from many earlier interpretations of Spenser. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 4

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. in Eight Volumes. from the Text of Mr. Upton, &c. with the Life of the Author. ... of 8; Volume 4 PDF Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379357322
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Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T139900 In: 'The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill', Bell's edition, London, printed for John Bell'. With engraved collective titlepages dated 1778. Each volume has an additional letterpress titlepage. Colophons dated: 1778. With a sli Edinburg: at the Apollo Press, by the Martins. Anno, 1778. 8v., plates: port.; 18°

The Faerie Queene. by Edmund Spenser. with an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, ... to Which Are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and Also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-Two Copper-Plates of 3; Volume 1

The Faerie Queene. by Edmund Spenser. with an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, ... to Which Are Now Added, a New Life of the Author, and Also a Glossary. Adorn'd with Thirty-Two Copper-Plates of 3; Volume 1 PDF Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385541425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T035152 Sig. Eee is present in duplicate in vol.I. The 'life' is by T. Birch. The 'Proposals for printing by subscription, The faerie queene' were issued on 1 July 1751. London: printed for J. Brindley, and S. Wright, 1751. 3v., plates; 4°