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