1st Edition
Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton
By Aleida Auld
Copyright 2024
222 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature, informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between... Read more
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Authorizing the corpus: Shakespeare’s poems and Sonnets in the editorial tradition
2 The man behind the author: Biographical approaches to Shakespeare’s Sonnets
3 Associating authors: Herbert and Donne in and beyond metaphysical poetry
4 Authoring the editorial tradition?: The case of Milton’s Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
Conclusion
Appendix
Biography
Aleida Auld received her PhD at the University of Geneva. In 2017・ 18, she received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for extended research stays at the University of Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
