Beschreibung:
This collection of essays models and refines the study of these complicated volumes. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, it offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in the history of the book.
Before (and after) the miscellany: reconstructing Donne's Satyres in the Conway Papers. Donne, rhapsody and textual order. Early modern letter-books, miscellanies and the reading and reception of scribally copied letters. The rector of Santon Downham and the hieroglyphical watch of Prague. Unlocking the mysteries of Constance Aston Fowler's verse miscellany (Huntington Library MS HM 904): the Hand B scribe identified. Attribution and anonymity: Donne, Ralegh, and Fletcher in British Library, Stowe MS 962. Copying epigrams in manuscript miscellanies. Camden's Remaines and a pair of epideictic poetry anthologies. 'The disagreeable figure of a common-place' in Katherine Butler's late 17th-century verse miscellany.