Research Catalog

Title

Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge : essays in honour of Isabel Rivers / edited by Tessa Whitehouse and N.H. Keeble.

Publication

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Whitehouse, Tessa
• Keeble, N. H.
• Rivers, Isabel

Description

xv, 260 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

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 recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, andposthumous 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's0identity or contents.0This collection brings together original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and distribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest isalso in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books were repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical, and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication including fictional and non-fictional prose, verse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy, and of authors including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, John Dryden, Thomas Burnet, John Tillotson, Henry Maundrell, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Wesley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.0.

Subjects

• Books
• Books > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• History
• 1600-1899
• Books > Great Britain > History > 18th century
• Books > Great Britain > History > 17th century
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / N.H. Keeble and Tessa Whitehouse -- Production and dissemination: Transforming the eighteenth-century book trade: John Nourse and his bookshops on the Strand / James Raven -- Friendship and eighteenth-century Nonconformist memorial publication / Tessa Whitehouse -- Manuscript in the house of print: Richardson and media shift after 1700 / Thomas Keymer -- Unitarian activism and the politics of the subscription library: Bury St. Edmunds in the 1790s / Christopher Reid -- Authorship and editing: Rewriting the public narrative: The publishing career of Richard Baxter, 1662-96 / N.H. Keeble -- Authorship and materiality in eighteenth-century collected works: The case of John Tillotson / Rosemary Dixon -- Remaking verse in the eighteenth-century poetic miscellany / Abigail Williams -- In good company: The business of agridgements in eighteenth-century England / Michael F. Suarez -- Reception: Editing shadows: The changing text of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson / Mark Burden -- 'Generous men will spare the memory of the dead': The posthumous publication of writings by Thomas Burnet / Scott Mandelbrote -- Reading Henry Maundrell's sacred geography in eighteenth-century England and Germany / Simon Mills -- Coleridge's Shakespearean transformation of Schiller's Wallenstein Plays / James Vigus.

Call Number

JFE 20-4193

ISBN

• 9780198808817
• 019880881X
• 9780192536358 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1124290850

Title

Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge : essays in honour of Isabel Rivers / edited by Tessa Whitehouse and N.H. Keeble.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1899

Added Author

Whitehouse, Tessa, editor.

Keeble, N. H., editor.

Rivers, Isabel, honoree.

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4193