Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature
Formal matters: Reading the materials of English Renaissance literature
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Abstract
Formal Matters is intended as an exploration of the emerging and potential links in early modern literary and cultural studies between the study of material texts on the one hand, and the analysis of literary form on the other. The essays exemplify some of the ways in which an attention to the matter of writing now combines in critical practice with the questioning of its forms: how an interest in forms might combine with an interest in the material text and, more broadly, in matter and things material. Section I, ‘Forming literature’, makes literary and sub-literary forms its focus, examining notions of authorship; ways of reading, consuming, and circulating literary and non-literary material; and modes of creative production and composition made possible by the exigencies of specific forms. Section III, ‘The matters of writing’, examines forms of writing, both literary and non-literary, that grapple with other fields of knowledge, including legal discourse, foreign news and intelligence, geometry, and theology. At stake for the authors in this section is the interface between discourses encoded in, and even produced through, specific textual forms.Linking these two sections are a pair of essays take up the subject of translation, both as a process that transforms textual matter from one formal and linguistic mode to another and as a theorization of the mediation between specific forms, materials, and cultures.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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Part I Forming literature
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The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader
Heather James
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Reading Shakespeare miscellaneously: Ben Jonson, Robert Chester, and the Vatum Chorus of Loves Martyr
Matthew Zarnowiecki
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3
‘Divines into dry Vines’: forms of jesting in Renaissance England
Adam Smyth
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Afterworlds: Thomas Middleton, the book, and the genre of continuation
Jeffrey Todd Knight
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The first English printed commonplace books and the rise of the common reader
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Part II Translations
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Part III The matters of writing
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The forms of news from France in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI
Alan Stewart
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Writings and the problem of satisfaction in Michaelmas Term
Amanda Bailey
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Saving souls or selling (virtual) godliness? The ‘penny godlinesses’ of John Andrewes and the problem of ‘popular puritanism’ in early Stuart England
Peter Lake
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How to construct a poem: Descartes, Sidney
Shankar Raman
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The forms of news from France in Shakespeare's 3 Henry VI
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Part IV Afterword
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End Matter
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