Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780198836476 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str.

Erin A. McCarthy

Opis

A study of the print publication of early modern English poetry books that shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself.

Recenzje

Doubtful Readers offers a much-needed corrective to received notions about the importance of print collections of poetry in early modern Britain...Doubtful Readers is an important addition to early modern literary studies and to the understanding of the development of lyric poetry in English.

O autorze

Erin A. McCarthy is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, material texts, the history of reading, and women's writing. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project 'RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing, 1550-1700' at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This research will be the basis of a monograph jointly authored with Marie-Louise Coolahan and Sajed Chowdhury.