Making the Miscellany : Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England /
Heffernan, Megan
Making the Miscellany : Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England / Megan Heffernan. - 1 online resource (336 p.) : 33 illus. - Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transcriptions -- Introduction. Delight in Disorder: The Miscellany as History -- Chapter 1. Plain Parcels: The Poetics of Compiling in Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes -- Chapter 2. Stationers’ Figures: Mixed Forms and Material Poetics -- Chapter 3. Gascoigne’s Inventions: Inference and Compiled Form -- Chapter 4. These Ensuing Sonnets: Genre and Mediation After Sidney -- Chapter 5. Books Called Poems: Authorship and the Miscellany -- Coda. Shakespeare’s Miscellanies: The Poetic History of the Book -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
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In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history.The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text.Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812298024
10.9783/9780812298024 doi
Book design--History--England--16th century.
Book design--History--England--17th century.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Poetry--History and criticism.--Collections
Poetry--Publishing--History--England--16th century.--Collections
Poetry--Publishing--History--England--17th century.--Collections
Literature (Scholarly).
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies. Literature.
PR531 / .M35 2021
821.3
Making the Miscellany : Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England / Megan Heffernan. - 1 online resource (336 p.) : 33 illus. - Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transcriptions -- Introduction. Delight in Disorder: The Miscellany as History -- Chapter 1. Plain Parcels: The Poetics of Compiling in Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes -- Chapter 2. Stationers’ Figures: Mixed Forms and Material Poetics -- Chapter 3. Gascoigne’s Inventions: Inference and Compiled Form -- Chapter 4. These Ensuing Sonnets: Genre and Mediation After Sidney -- Chapter 5. Books Called Poems: Authorship and the Miscellany -- Coda. Shakespeare’s Miscellanies: The Poetic History of the Book -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history.The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text.Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812298024
10.9783/9780812298024 doi
Book design--History--England--16th century.
Book design--History--England--17th century.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Poetry--History and criticism.--Collections
Poetry--Publishing--History--England--16th century.--Collections
Poetry--Publishing--History--England--17th century.--Collections
Literature (Scholarly).
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies. Literature.
PR531 / .M35 2021
821.3