An edition of The anonymous Renaissance
(2003)
The anonymous Renaissance
cultures of discretion in Tudor-Stuart England
by Marcy L. North
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Authorship, Book industries and trade, English Anonymous writings, English Anonyms and pseudonyms, English literature, History, History and criticism, Renaissance, Social aspects of Authorship, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Book industries and trade, history, Renaissance, england, Anonyms and pseudonymsPlaces
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-296) and index.
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