Renaissance Authorship

Dobranski, Stephen B.

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“…When the narrator of Paradise Lost refers to the poem's "fit audience … though few" (VII.31), Milton "stresses his poetry's aural qualities," as Dobranski points out. 13 Such a dynamic interaction between the visual and the auditory requires that Paradise Lost be read (or, as Eliot notes, reread). In fact, though, to extract, or draw, everything possible from Paradise Lost, one needs to read it at least three ways, at the same time -seeing it, reading it, and noticing tensions between what is seen and what is heard.…”

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Milton's Late Poems

Morrissey

2022

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Upending conventional scholarship on Milton and modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes as narrating three alternative responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. Through incisive engagement with narrative, form, and genre, Morrissey shows how each work, considered specifically as a fiction, grapples with the vicissitudes of a modern world characterised more by paradoxes, ambiguities, subversions and shifting temporalities than by any rigid historical periodization. The interpretations made possible by this book are as invaluable as they are counterintuitive, opening new definitions and stimulating avenues of research for Milton students and specialists, as well as for those working in the broader field of early modern studies. Morrissey invites us to rethink where Milton stands in relation to the greatest products of modernity, and in particular to that most modern of genres, the novel.

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England

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Authors in the early modern period in England were essential for the creation of printed texts, but they were generally considered secondary to the other agents of bookmaking. This chapter examines the tension between writers’ limited authority within the early modern print trade—legally, practically, and financially—and their increased presence in printed texts. Privileging literary authorship but also taking into account other, more popular types of writing, the chapter addresses how manuscript practices, printing conventions, and reading habits contributed to the growing opportunity that writers experienced and claimed for themselves in creating their publications. By the late 1600s, authors continued to collaborate with Stationers, but they began to perceive—and, gradually, to exploit—the material text’s significance in shaping both the meaning of a literary work and the endurance of their own reputations.

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Renaissance Authorship

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