Manuscript Matters: Reading John Donne's Poetry and Prose in Early Modern England

by Lara Crowley

Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne's most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences. Since examples of seventeenth-century literary criticism prove somewhat rare and frequently ambiguous, this book emphasizes a critical framework rarely used for exhibiting early readers' exegeses of literary texts: the complete manuscripts containing them. Many literary manuscripts that include poems by Donne and his contemporaries were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198821867
• ISBN13: 9780198821861
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"