Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge : essays in honour of Isabel Rivers /

Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, representation, revision and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were repackaged, redirected and transformed...

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Other Authors: Whitehouse, Tessa (Editor), Keeble, N. H. (Editor), Rivers, Isabel (honouree.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of 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.