TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melnikoff,Kirk
TI  - Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture
T2  - Studies in Book and Print Culture
SN  - 9781487502232
AV  - Z151.3 .M45 2018eb
U1  - 070.5094209/031 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Books
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literature publishing
KW  - Printing
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture explores the influence of the book trade over English literary culture in the decades following incorporation of the Stationers' 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. The 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's Hamlet, Thévet's The New Found World, Constable's Diana, and Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage. 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487514938
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487514938/original
ER  -