Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge : essays in honour of Isabel Rivers /

Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transfo...

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Gespeichert in:
Hauptverfasser:
Whitehouse, Tessa, Keeble, N. H.
Weitere Verfasser:
Whitehouse, Tessa (HerausgeberIn), Keeble, N. H. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and transformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognise. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and paratexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Anmerkungen:
This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-253636-2
0-19-188250-X
0-19-253635-4
Schlagworte:
1600-1899
History.
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