An edited collection that studies the making of books in the long eighteenth century and advances understanding of book production and reception from a literary-historical perspective.
| ISBN: | 9780198808817 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Keeble N. H. Whitehouse Tessa |
| Verlag: | Oxford Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.12.2019 |
| Untertitel: | Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Schlagworte: | 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 Book design Book design and Bookbinding C 1700 To C 1800 English HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general Printing & Reprographic Technology Printing and reprographic technologies Publishing and book trade Publishing industry & book trade Social & cultural history Social and cultural history |
Tessa Whitehouse, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London, N. H. Keeble, Emeritus Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 (2015) and essays on aspects of nonconformist literary culture. She has contributed chapters to several major collections: one on spiritual autobiography for A History of English Autobiography (2016), another on dissenters' print culture for the Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (2018), and one for A History of Dissenting Academies in the British Isles 1660-1860 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), edited by Isabel Rivers. N. H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus of English Studies at the University of Stirling. His academic and research interests lie in English literary and religious history of the period 1500-1725. His publications include studies of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (Clarendon Press, 1982), The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later seventeenth-century England (Leicester University Press, 1987), The Restoration: England in the 1660s (Blackwell, 2002) and (with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (Clarendon Press, 1991). He has edited four collections of original essays, texts by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Lucy Hutchinson, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and (with John Coffey, Tim Cooper, and Thomas Charlton) Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).