The anonymous Renaissance
Subtitle: cultures of discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
By: Marcy L. North.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Anonymous writings, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Authorship -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Authorship -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Anonyms and pseudonyms, English -- History -- 16th century.; Anonyms and pseudonyms, English -- History -- 17th century.; Renaissance -- England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations vii; title: Acknowledgments ix; title: Note on the Transcription of Texts xi; title: Introduction: A Renaissance "Anon" i; title: Recovering Anonymity from the Modern Edition 5; title: Defining the Presence of the Absent Name 12; title: Cultures of Discretion 24; title: ONE Medieval Anonymity and the "Modern Author" 35; title: The Author's Death and Discovery 36; title: Medieval Anonymity as Myth and Model 44; title: TWO Ignoto and the Book Industry 56; title: Turning the Nameless Author into a Print Convention 58; title: Anonymityon the Title Page 61; title: The Paradox of Initials 67; title: The Typography of the Absent Name 75; title: Printers, Publishers, and Contradictions as Agents of Anonymity 78; title: Conclusion 86; title: THREE Printed Anonymity and Its Readers 89; title: Johann Wigand and the Threat of Anonymity 91; title: Reading the Ambition in Anonymity 99; title: The Importance of the Unexceptional: A Bookseller's Reading of Anonymity 108; title: Conclusion 115; title: FOUR N. D. versus 0. E.: Anonymity's Moral Ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic Controversy II7; title: The Jewel-Harding Controversy 120; title: The Watchword Controversy 127; title: FIVE In the Name of Secrecy: Anonymity in Elizabethan Puritan Controversy 133; title: Anonymity among the Early Puritans 134 The Martin Marprelate Controversy 139; title: Anon and Anon: Anti-Marprelate Satire 115; title: SIX "Anon" inside the Circle: Coterie Anonymity and Poetic Commonplace Books 159; title: Defining Anonymity as a Coterie Convention 161; title: The Arundel Harington Manuscript 172; title: Liber Lilliati 186; title: Anonymous Donne: The Dalhousie Manuscripts I93; title: Anonymity in Extended Scribal Communities 203; title: SEVEN Reading the Anonymous Female Voice 211; title: The Search for the Anonymous Ventriloquist 214; title: Female Shame and the Anonymous Lament 222; title: The Eroticism of the Anonymous Female Voice 230; title: Anonymous Defenses and Rebuffs 234; title: Constructing an Anonymous Female Author 244; title: Afterword 257; title: Notes 263; title: Index 297.