Borris Edmund Spenser's <i>Shepheardes Calender</i> (1579)

An analyzed facsimile edition
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3346-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: The Manchester Spenser

Recontextualizing Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender in relation to book history, this study analyses the first edition of 1579 as a material text, and provides the first clearly detailed facsimile available as a book. By illuminating the 1579 Calender’s development, this volume much advances understanding of Spenser and Elizabethan culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borris, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:

1 Prologue
2 Hugh Singleton and the Calender's first publication
3 Designing the 1579 edition
4 Formal affinities, models, sources, and intertexts
5 The Calender and popular almanacs
6 Bibliographical format, paper, typography, and decoration
7 Textual components, their sequence, and the norms of bucolic print
8 The genesis of the illustrations
9 The illustrative mode
10 The pictorial symbology
11 Known copies, surrogates, and the copy reproduced

Appendices:

Appendix 1: Spenser's alleged pictorial naivety
Appendix 2: Enlargements of the Calender's twelve original pictures

A facsimile reprint of Spenser's 1579 Calender

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University