The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England

by Emma Smith

Book Overview

Engaging with histories of the book and of reading, as well as with studies of material culture, this volume explores 'popularity' in early modern English writings. Is 'popular' best described as a theoretical or an empirical category in this period? How can we account for the gap between modern canonicity and early modern print popularity? How might we weight the evidence of popularity from citations, serial editions, print runs, reworkings, or extant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879069
• ISBN13: 9780367879068
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"