Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond
Hao Tianhu, "Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1032629215 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 677 KB + 14 MB
English | ISBN: 1032629215 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 677 KB + 14 MB
Approaching from bibliographical, literary, cultural, and intercultural perspectives, this book establishes the importance of Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden, a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general.
Hesperides, or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections, which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Ben Jonson, and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism, composition, reading practice, and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters, which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing, early modern English reading practice, and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China, comparing commonplace books with Chinese
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