Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Tessa Whitehouse and N.H. Keeble.
2020
Z8.G7
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Title
Textual transformations : purposing and repurposing books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Tessa Whitehouse and N.H. Keeble.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191882500 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
Z8.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification
002.0941
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 recognise. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous 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's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability.
Note
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 recognise. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous 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's identity or contents. This collection brings together original essays that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 13, 2020).
Added Author
Whitehouse, Tessa, editor.
Keeble, N. H., editor.
Keeble, N. H., editor.
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198808817
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