{"product_id":"elizabethan-publishing-and-the-makings-of-literary-culture-hardback-9781487502232","title":"Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (Hardback) 9781487502232","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eElizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKirk Melnikoff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487502232\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is rife with references to practices and people not often discussed, but Melnikoff\u0026amp;#x2019;s integration of terminology, Elizabethan classics, and applied techniques leaves an open door for both publishing professionals and newly interested readers to engage with the peculiarities of sixteenth century publishing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Marina Garcia, Portland State University (Publishing Research Quarterly, vol 35)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture\u003c\/em\u003e explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers\u0026amp;#x2019; Company in 1557. Through an analysis of the often overlooked contributions of bookmen like Thomas Hacket, Richard Smith, and Paul Linley, Kirk Melnikoff tracks the crucial role that bookselling publishers played in transmitting literary texts into print as well as energizing and shaping a new sphere of vernacular literary activity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume provides an overview of the full range of practises that publishers performed, including the acquisition of copy and titles, compiling, alteration to texts, reissuing, and specialization. Four case studies together consider links between translation and the travel narrative; bookselling and authorship; re-issuing and the Ovidian narrative poem; and specialization and professional drama. Works considered include Shakespeare\u0026amp;#x2019;s\u003ci\u003e Hamlet, \u003c\/i\u003eThévet\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eThe New Found World\u003c\/i\u003e, Constable\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eDiana\u003c\/i\u003e, and Marlowe\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003ci\u003eDido, Queen of Carthage.\u003c\/i\u003e This exciting new book provides both a complement and a counter to recent studies that have turned back to authors and out to buyers and printing houses as makers of vernacular literary culture in the second half of the sixteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003eGeldings, \"\u003cbr\u003eprettie inuentions,\"\u003cbr\u003e and \"\u003cbr\u003eplaine knauery\"\u003cbr\u003e: Elizabethan Book-Trade Publishing Practices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThomas Hacket, Translation, and the Wonders of the New World Travel Narrative \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRichard Smith\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es Browsibles: \u003ci\u003eA Hundreth Sundry Flowers \u003c\/i\u003e(1573), \u003ci\u003eThe Fabulous Tales of Aesop \u003c\/i\u003e(1577), and \u003ci\u003eDiana\u003c\/i\u003e (1592, 1594?) \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFlasket and Linley\u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e#x2019\u003cbr\u003es\u003ci\u003e The Tragedy of Dido Queen of Carthage\u003c\/i\u003e (1594): Reissuing the Elizabethan Epyllion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003e(1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712028635416,"sku":"9781487502232","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/elizabethan-publishing-and-the-makings-of-literary-culture-hardback-9781487502232","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}