Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England
Early Modern Cultures of Recreation
- Author: Michelle O'Callaghan, University of Reading
- Date Published: November 2022
- availability: Not yet published - available from February 2025
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108792202
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The printed poetry anthologies first produced in sixteenth-century England have long been understood as instrumental in shaping the history of English poetry. This book offers a fresh approach to this history by turning attention to the recreative properties of these books, both in the sense of making again, of crafting and recrafting, and of poetry as a pleasurable pastime. The model of materiality employed extends from books-as-artefacts to their embodiedness - their crafted, performative, and expressive capacities. Publishers invariably advertised the recreational uses of anthologies, locating these books in early modern performance cultures in which poetry was read, silently and in company, sometimes set to music, and re-crafted into other forms. Engaging with studies of material cultures, including work on craft, households, and soundscapes, Crafting Poetry Anthologies argues for a domestic Renaissance in which anthologies travelled across social classes, shaping recreational cultures that incorporated men and women in literary culture.
Read more- Employs a model of craft to study how poetry anthologies were made, demonstrating the skill, work, and design involved in compiling and publishing anthologies
- Foregrounds the multi-media recreational uses of poetry anthologies through a series of case studies
- Introduces readers to a wide range of poetry written by men and women, both elite and non-elite, arguing that poetry anthologies exemplify the lively diversity of vernacular literary cultures
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'Erudite, meticulously researched, and still inviting to readers, this book elegantly threads the needle posed by both a new historicist interest in texts in context and material cultural studies of textual production and use … In its attention to a powerful craft that encompasses multiple kinds of poetic making in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it challenges our inherited sense of what the Renaissance was and how we ought to read it now.' Megan Heffernan, Modern Philology
See more reviews'… a recognisable type of early modern book.' Megan Heffernan, Modern Philology
'offer[s] a new vision of the poetic miscellanies of this period.' Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement
'This illuminating volume will be valuable for many readers with interests in this period.' Sheila T. Cavanagh, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108792202
- length: 261 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from February 2025
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Books in process: Songes and Sonettes and Paradyse of Daynty devises
2. Household books: Richard Jones, Isabella Whitney and anthology-making
3. 'To the Gentleman Reader': recreating Sidney in the 1590s
4. 'Impos'd designe': Englands Helicon and re-creative craft
5. A Poetical Rapsody: Francis Davison, the 'Printer', and the craft of compilation
Conclusion.
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