1st Edition
Anonymity in Early Modern England 'What's In A Name?'
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Expanding the scholarly conversation about anonymity in Renaissance England, this essay collection explores the phenomenon in all its variety of methods and genres as well as its complex relationship with its alter ego, attribution studies. Contributors address such questions as these: What were the consequences of publishing and reading anonymous texts for Renaissance writers and readers? What... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 Anonymous Manuscript Poetry; Chapter 1 Anonymity in Early Modern Manuscript Culture, Marcy L.North; Chapter 2 “Jacke on Both Sides”, Janet WrightStarner; Part 2 Anonymous Printed Plays and Pamphlets; Chapter 3 What Wrote Woodstock, ThomasCartelli; Chapter 4 Dealing with Dramatic Anonymity, Barbara HowardTraister; Chapter 5 Attributing Authorship and Swetnam the Woman-Hater, JamesPurkis; Chapter 6 Was Anonymous a Jokester?, Susan GusheeO’Malley; Part 3 The Consequences of Anonymity and Attribution; Chapter 7 The Anonymous Shakespeare, BruceDanner; Chapter 8 The Ethics of Anonymity, MarkRobson;
Biography
Janet Wright Starner is associate professor of English at Wilkes University, USA Barbara Howard Traister is professor of English at Lehigh University, USA
'It is true that anonymous works receive less attention than those works that can be attributed to a canonical author, and this collection succeeds in suggesting ways in which carefully selected anonymous works may be usefully approached thematically and historically, and as specific genres.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Anonymity in Early Modern England makes an important contribution to early modern studies, precisely because it addresses what many scholars have traditionally avoided. Anonymity is not an unfortunate condition for a book, pamphlet, or manuscript, nor is it merely a pragmatic device by which the author wishes to avoid arrest. The book argues persuasively that anonymity is an essential, if paradoxical, aspect of self-fashioning. Anonymity is a form of authorship in its own right.' Sixteenth Century Journal
