The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance
What did it mean to be published at the end of the sixteenth century? While in polite circles gentlemen exchanged handwritten letters, published authors risked association with the low-born masses. Examining a wide range of published material including sonnets, pageants, prefaces, narrative...
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What did it mean to be published at the end of the sixteenth century? While in polite circles gentlemen exchanged handwritten letters, published authors risked association with the low-born masses. Examining a wide range of published material including sonnets, pageants, prefaces, narrative poems, and title pages, Wendy Wall considers how the idea of authorship was shaped by the complex social controversies generated by publication during the English Renaissance.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780801480478 (0801480477)
Publish date: January 8th 1993
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Pages no: 373
Edition language: English
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