Part 1 Scribal productions: the phenomenon; "publication" in the scribal medium; scribal production. Part 2 Script and society: some metaphors for reading; the social uses of the scribally published text; restoration scriptorial satire; the triumph of print. Part 3 Editing scribally published texts: editing scribally published texts.
...this important book, which both describes and analyses one of
the almost forgotten phenomena of publishing history. Dr Love's
findings and ideas will be of great significance. Editors have long
recognised that they cannot ignore the manuscript sources. Dr Love
has now shown them how they must analyse and use them to gain a
fuller understanding of the texts of these important historical and
literary documents. Few readers of this book... will come away
from
it without learning something, and most readers, like your
reviewer, will learn a very great deal indeed. It is ... warmly
recommended.'
John Feather, Loughborough University, Rare Books Newsletter 45
This is a bold and timely book. ... a broad and illuminating
account of the context from which much writing in this period grew.
It demonstrates the need for a full scholarly edition of the
anti-court political satire written in the reigns of James I and
Charles I, to parallel the Yale edition of Poems of Affairs of
State. It offers a methodology, a definition of terms - and a sense
of how much still remains to be done on the seventeenth-century
manuscript
archive.'
Times Literary Supplement
There is far more in this astonishingly rich book than I can
possibly rehearse here, I can only point to a reading of Mac
Flecknoe in full awareness of its scribal publication ... a
memorable put-down of Jonathan Goldberg, some dazzling pages on
'Swift, Script and Print'... new and persuasive reflections on
'Editing Scribally Published Texts'. Scribal publication was the
preferred form of publication for Donne, King, Carew, Marvell,
Rochester, and Dorset.
This learned book will encourage scholars to be more aware of the
practice.'
Keith Walker, University College, London, Modern Language Review,
25, 1995
`...a fascinating book, full of ideas and theories about the
distinctions between scribal and printed publications....to be read
by as many musicologists and music biographers as possible.'
Notes
`It is a particularly auspicious time,..for the appearance of
Harold Love's synthesizing monograaph, Scribal Publication in
Seventeenth-Century England...It's synthesis of textual theory and
its exploration of the material conditions of literary culture in
the seven-teenth century are valuable indeed, as are its notes and
bibliography...The book is a significant contribution to the study
of literrary practice in a transitional age, before the triumph
of
print was complete.'
Review
`Harold Love's Scribal Publications in Seventeenth-Century England
does what most scholars wish they could and what few actually
accomplish. By envisioning manuscript artifacts not as grist for
print editions but rather as evidence of past activity, Love opens
up a new arena for inquiry. ...wider use of the strategies he
deploys will provide us with "an understanding" that both scribal
transmissions and "reading" were activities "that
w[ere] always communal as well as individual".'
Early Modern Literary Studies
`Love's book is rich in detailed discussions of writings,
techniques and processes. His wide scholarly reading is matched by
sensitivity both in his interpretations and in his theorizing.'
Peter S. Graham, Rutgers University Libraries, Renaissance
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