Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England

by Stephen B. Dobranski

Book Overview

While authors in early modern England were gaining new authority - legally, economically and symbolically - Renaissance readers also were expected to participate in and make use of an author's writings. In this book, Stephen B. Dobranski examines how the seventeenth-century phenomenon of printing apparently unfinished works ushered in a new emphasis on authors' responsibility for written texts while it simultaneously reinforced Renaissance practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120187
• ISBN13: 9780521120180
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"