The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England
Author:   Andy Kesson ,  Emma Smith
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367879068


Pages:   284
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
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Author:   Andy Kesson ,  Emma Smith
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367879068


ISBN 10:   0367879069
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Methodologies: What is print popularity? A map of the Elizabethan book trade. 'O read me for I am of great antiquity': old books and Elizabethan popularity. 'Rare poems ask rare friends': popularity and collecting in Elizabethan England. Shakespeare's popularity and the origins of the canon. Part 2 The Elizabethan Top Ten: Almanacs and ideas of popularity Print, popularity and the Book of Common Prayer. International news pamphlets. Spenser's popular intertexts. Household manuals. Damask papers. Sermons. The psalm book. Serial publication and romance. Mucedorus.

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'The Elizabethan Top Ten is a rigorous, entertaining and provocative set of studies in the print culture of a defining era. Given the number of avenues it opens up, and the new lights it throws upon an apparently familiar scene, Smith and Kesson's wish that it will prompt more debate seems certain to be amply fulfilled.' Quite Irregular Blog 'It would be good if The Elizabethan Top Ten achieved some measure of popularity itself, as it is an interesting and engaging work which also combines and balances different elements.' Times Literary Supplement '... The Elizabethan Top Ten offers more than ten compelling reasons for deserving popularity among humanities scholars and students.' Journal of British Studies '... the present collection contributes in a nuanced way to our understanding of print and its uses in early modern England.' 16th Century Journal 'Kesson and Smith are to be congratulated on bringing together this eclectic collection of essays on what constituted popularity in print in Elizabethan England.' CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Newsletter 'This is an exceptionally important work that will challenge a number of assumptions scholarship has held about Elizabethan publishing for some time.' Publishing History


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Andy Kesson is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. Emma Smith is Fellow and Tutor in English at Hertford College, Oxford, UK.

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