Anonymity in Early Modern England : 'What's in a Name?'

Traister, Barbara Howard/ Starner, Janet Wright (EDT)

Routledge（2016/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 198 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138275454
• DDC分類 820.9003

Full Description

Expanding the scholarly conversation about anonymity in Renaissance England, this essay collection explores the phenomenon in all its variety of methods and genres as well as its complex relationship with its alter ego, attribution studies. Contributors address such questions as these: What were the consequences of publishing and reading anonymous texts for Renaissance writers and readers? What cultural constraints and subject positions made anonymous publication in print or manuscript a strategic choice? What are the possible responses to Renaissance anonymity in contemporary classrooms and scholarly debate? The volume opens with essays investigating particular texts-poetry, plays, and pamphlets-and the inflection each genre gives to the issue of anonymity. The collection then turns to consider more abstract consequences of anonymity: its function in destabilizing scholarly assumptions about authorship, its ethical ramifications, and its relationship to attribution studies.

Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Anonymous Manuscript Poetry; Chapter 1 Anonymity in Early Modern Manuscript Culture, Marcy L.North; Chapter 2 "Jacke on Both Sides", Janet WrightStarner; Part 2 Anonymous Printed Plays and Pamphlets; Chapter 3 What Wrote Woodstock, ThomasCartelli; Chapter 4 Dealing with Dramatic Anonymity, Barbara HowardTraister; Chapter 5 Attributing Authorship and Swetnam the Woman-Hater, JamesPurkis; Chapter 6 Was Anonymous a Jokester?, Susan GusheeO'Malley; Part 3 The Consequences of Anonymity and Attribution; Chapter 7 The Anonymous Shakespeare, BruceDanner; Chapter 8 The Ethics of Anonymity, MarkRobson;