{"product_id":"textual-transformations-purposing-and-repurposing-books-from-richard-baxter-to-samuel-taylor-coleridge-9780198808817","title":"Textual Transformations: Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge","description":"Early modern books were not stable or settled outputs of the press but dynamic shape-changers, subject to reworking, re-presentation, revision, and reinterpretation. Their history is often the history of multiple, sometimes competing, agencies as their texts were re-packaged, redirected, and\u003cbr\u003etransformed in ways that their original authors might hardly recognize. Processes of editing, revision, redaction, selection, abridgement, glossing, disputation, translation, and posthumous publication resulted in a textual elasticity and mobility that could dissolve distinctions between text and\u003cbr\u003eparatexts, textuality and intertextuality, manuscript and print, author and reader or editor, such that title and author's name are no longer sufficient pointers to a book's identity or contents. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection brings together original essays by an international team of eminent scholars in the field of book history that explore these various kinds of textual inconstancy and variability. The essays are alive to the impact of commercial and technological aspects of book production and\u003cbr\u003edistribution (discussing, for example, the career of the pre-eminent bookseller John Nourse, the market appeal of abridgements, and the financial incentives to posthumous publication), but their interest is also in the many additional forms of agency that shaped texts and their meanings as books\u003cbr\u003ewere repurposed to articulate, and respond to, a variety of cultural and individual needs. They engage with early modern religious, political, philosophical, and scholarly trends and debates as they discuss a wide range of genres and kinds of publication including fictional and non-fictional prose, \u003cbr\u003everse miscellanies, abridgements, sermons, religious controversy, and of authors including Lucy Hutchinson, Richard Baxter, John Dryden, Thomas Burnet, John Tillotson, Henry Maundrell, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, John Wesley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a richly diverse collection that demonstrates the embeddedness of the book trade in the cultural dynamics of early modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tessa Whitehouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198808817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTessa Whitehouse, \u003cem\u003eSenior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London\u003c\/em\u003e, N. H. Keeble, \u003cem\u003eEmeritus Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and essays on aspects of nonconformist literary culture. She has contributed chapters to several major collections: one on spiritual autobiography for \u003cem\u003eA History of English Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), another on dissenters' print culture for the \u003cem\u003eOxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), and one for \u003cem\u003eA History of Dissenting Academies in the British Isles 1660-1860\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), edited by Isabel Rivers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eN. H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus of English Studies at the University of Stirling. His academic and research interests lie in English literary and religious history of the period 1500-1725. His publications include studies of \u003cem\u003eRichard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (Clarendon Press, 1982), \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eLiterary Culture of Nonconformity in later seventeenth-century England\u003c\/em\u003e (Leicester University Press, 1987), \u003cem\u003eThe Restoration: England in the 1660s\u003c\/em\u003e (Blackwell, 2002) and (with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) a two-volume \u003cem\u003eCalendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter\u003c\/em\u003e (Clarendon Press, 1991). He has edited four collections of original essays, texts by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Lucy Hutchinson, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and (with John Coffey, Tim Cooper, and Thomas Charlton) Richard Baxter's \u003cem\u003eReliquiae Baxterianae\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39959072473203,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":81.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_707cc152-2a23-4d32-a49a-27afe22abec4.jpg?v=1648740731","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/textual-transformations-purposing-and-repurposing-books-from-richard-baxter-to-samuel-taylor-coleridge-9780198808817","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}