Textual Transformations: Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ISBN-13: 9780198808817 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Tessa Whitehouse; N. H. Keeble

Recenzje

Editors Tessa Whitehouse and N. H. Keeble possess impressive credentials of their own in British Dissenting literary and print culture...In professing their indebtedness to the work of Professor Rivers in their preface, the editors note the undeniable value of her contribution to the study of English book history and print culture throughout the long eighteenth century

O autorze

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).