Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
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- Author: Stephen B. Dobranski, Georgia State University
- Date Published: September 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521119009
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This original study explores Milton's relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and little has been said about his dependence on other people for producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical circumstances with special attention to his texts' material production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative and original case studies that Milton benefited from a collaborative process of writing and publishing, working with amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers in dramatic and surprising ways.
Read more- The first study of Milton's relationship to the 17th-century booktrade, examining the material production of his texts, with insights drawn from textual scholarship and history of the book
- Overturns received images of Milton as an autonomous and isolated genius, by revealing the extent of his debt to collaborative working practices with amanuenses, printers and publishers
- Offers important new readings of Milton's poems and pamphlets, shedding new light on his authorship and the meaning of the texts
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"This groundbreaking study argues convincingly that Milton was not the cloistered genius, independently determining the appearance and internal ordering of his published work, often portrayed by scholars." Choice
See more reviews"Professor Dobranski's book is a fine example of the bibliographic work which is currently being done by scholars on Renaissance authors....this is a book that helps us understand a great deal more about the material circumstances within which a great poet worked." Sixteenth Century Journal
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- Date Published: September 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521119009
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the author John Milton
1. The labor of book-writing and book-making
2. Restoring Samson Agonistes
3. The myth of the solitary genius
4. Fair Milton's counterfeit
5. Letters and spirit in Areopagitica
6. The mystery of Milton as licenser
7. The poet John Milton, 1673
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