Scribal publication in Seventeenth-Century England
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Scribal publication in Seventeenth-Century England
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. 357-366
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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BL Contains substantial discussions of Donne, Shakespeare, Rochester, and Swift
Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers and composers still preferred to publish their work through handwritten copies. Texts so transmitted included some of the most distinguished poetry and music of the seventeenth century, along with a rich variety of political. scientific, antiquarian, and philosophical writings. While censorship was one reason for this persistence of the older practice, scribal publication remained the norm for texts which were required only in
small numbers, or whose authors wished to avoid `the stigma of print'. The present study is the first to consider the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to that in printed books, and to descrice the agencies that met the need for rapid duplication of key texts. By integrating the large
body of findings already available concerning particular texts and authors it provides an arresting new perspective on authorship and the communication of ideas.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Scribal productions: the phenomenon
- "publication" in the scribal medium
- scribal production. Part 2 Script and society: some metaphors for reading
- the social uses of the scribally published text
- restoration scriptorial satire
- the triumph of print. Part 3 Editing scribally published texts: editing scribally published texts.
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