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Author | : Shayne Husbands |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1783086912 |
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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. The Early Roxburghe Club 1812–1835 offers a new narrative for the formative years of the Roxburghe Club, for the ‘bibliomania’ of the Romantic period and for early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature. By examining in detail the make-up and membership of the club, including its social and political affinities, this revised history of the first two decades of its existence offers both an alternative view of the early club and its significant contribution to the move between antiquarian and scholarly areas of influence in the study of English literature.
Author | : Arthur der Weduwen |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2021-10-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1788163443 |
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LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched, of that extraordinary and enduring phenomenon: the library' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge under Attack Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied and stuffed full of incident. In this, the first major history of its kind, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen explore the contested and dramatic history of the library, from the famous collections of the ancient world to the embattled public resources we cherish today. Along the way, they introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of fashions and tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanours committed in pursuit of rare and valuable manuscripts.
Author | : Shayne Husbands |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781783086900 |
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The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. Since the Club's edition of 'Havelok the Dane' appeared in 1828, the Roxburghe has gained a reputation as a producer of beautifully printed editions of manuscripts and reprinted early books. The founding period of the Club, however, has been viewed with less approval, often seen as a frivolous, unscholarly period of wasted years when little of value was produced by a membership composed of dilettante aristocrats. This work offers a new narrative of the formative years of the Roxburghe Club, for the bibliomania of the Romantic period and for early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature. It addresses what is shown to be a long-repeated myth: what the Club was and whether its scholarship and editing of early English literature merited respect or mockery. The book covers the make-up and membership of the Club including social and political affinities, literary and scholarly achievements and the substantial contribution made by the Club to widening awareness and understanding of earlier English writers and the establishment of a canon of English literature. This revised history offers an alternative narrative for the move between antiquarian and scholarly areas of influence in the study of English literature, and offers a plausible mechanism for the growing acceptance of vernacular English literature, both in academia and in a more general cultural sense.
Author | : David McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2022-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1009200844 |
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This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.
Author | : Nicholas Watson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 2022-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812298349 |
Download Balaam's Ass: Vernacular Theology Before the English Reformation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For over seven hundred years, bodies of writing in vernacular languages served an indispensable role in the religious and intellectual culture of medieval Christian England, yet the character and extent of their importance have been insufficiently recognized. A longstanding identification of medieval western European Christianity with the Latin language and a lack of awareness about the sheer variety and quantity of vernacular religious writing from the English Middle Ages have hampered our understanding of the period, exercising a tenacious hold on much scholarship. Bringing together work across a range of disciplines, including literary study, Christian theology, social history, and the history of institutions, Balaam's Ass attempts the first comprehensive overview of religious writing in early England's three most important vernacular languages, Old English, Insular French, and Middle English, between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. Nicholas Watson argues not only that these texts comprise the oldest continuous tradition of European vernacular writing, but that they are essential to our understanding of how Christianity shaped and informed the lives of individuals, communities, and polities in the Middle Ages. This first of three volumes lays out the long post-Reformation history of the false claim that the medieval Catholic Church was hostile to the vernacular. It analyzes the complicated idea of the vernacular, a medieval innovation instantiated in a huge body of surviving vernacular religious texts. Finally, it focuses on the first, long generation of these writings, in Old English and early Middle English.
Author | : Michael E. Robinson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 179360794X |
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How did the buying and collecting of books figure in the lives and works of the Romantics, those supposed apostles of spiritualized poetic genius? Why was book collecting controversial during the Romantic period, and what role has book collecting played in the history of homophobia? The Queer Bookishness of Romanticism: Ornamental Community addresses these and more questions about the suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism, as well as Romanticism’s historical forebears and Victorian inheritors. The analysis ranges widely, addressing the bookish proclivities of the "romantic friends" the Ladies of Llangollen, the camp works about book collecting produced by a subculture calling themselves “ornamental gentlemen,” narratives of prototypically punk collecting and flâneuring by the essayist and collector Charles Lamb, and rare-book forgeries by Thomas J. Wise and Harry Forman, queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for canonizing some of the Romantic poets during the Victorian period. In the process, this book uncovers surprising connections between conceptions of literature and sexuality; literary materiality and queerness; and forgery, sexuality, and authorship.
Author | : Katie Donington |
Publisher | : Studies in Imperialism |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : 9781526129482 |
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Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's history and legacies of slavery.
Author | : Orietta Da Rold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107102464 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.
Author | : Nicolas Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Bibliomania |
ISBN | : 9781901902112 |
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Author | : Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317607813 |
Download Minor Knowledge and Microhistory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.