The anonymous Renaissance: cultures of discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii -- Acknowledgments ix -- Note on the Transcription of Texts xi -- Introduction: A Renaissance "Anon" i -- Recovering Anonymity from the Modern Edition 5 -- Defining the Presence of the Absent Name 12 -- Cultures of Discretion 24 --...
| Summary: | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii -- Acknowledgments ix -- Note on the Transcription of Texts xi -- Introduction: A Renaissance "Anon" i -- Recovering Anonymity from the Modern Edition 5 -- Defining the Presence of the Absent Name 12 -- Cultures of Discretion 24 -- ONE Medieval Anonymity and the "Modern Author" 35 -- The Author's Death and Discovery 36 -- Medieval Anonymity as Myth and Model 44 -- TWO Ignoto and the Book Industry 56 -- Turning the Nameless Author into a Print Convention 58 -- Anonymityon the Title Page 61 -- The Paradox of Initials 67 -- The Typography of the Absent Name 75 -- Printers, Publishers, and Contradictions as Agents of Anonymity 78 -- Conclusion 86 -- THREE Printed Anonymity and Its Readers 89 -- Johann Wigand and the Threat of Anonymity 91 -- Reading the Ambition in Anonymity 99 -- The Importance of the Unexceptional: A Bookseller's Reading of Anonymity 108 -- Conclusion 115 -- FOUR N. D. versus 0. E.: Anonymity's Moral Ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic Controversy II7 -- The Jewel-Harding Controversy 120 -- The Watchword Controversy 127 -- FIVE In the Name of Secrecy: Anonymity in Elizabethan Puritan Controversy 133 -- Anonymity among the Early Puritans 134 The Martin Marprelate Controversy 139 -- Anon and Anon: Anti-Marprelate Satire 115 -- SIX "Anon" inside the Circle: Coterie Anonymity and Poetic Commonplace Books 159 -- Defining Anonymity as a Coterie Convention 161 -- The Arundel Harington Manuscript 172 -- Liber Lilliati 186 -- Anonymous Donne: The Dalhousie Manuscripts I93 -- Anonymity in Extended Scribal Communities 203 -- SEVEN Reading the Anonymous Female Voice 211 -- The Search for the Anonymous Ventriloquist 214 -- Female Shame and the Anonymous Lament 222 -- The Eroticism of the Anonymous Female Voice 230 -- Anonymous Defenses and Rebuffs 234 -- Constructing an Anonymous Female Author 244 -- Afterword 257 -- Notes 263 -- Index 297 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226594378 |