Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
This original study explores Milton's relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and little has been said about his dependence on other people for producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical circumstances with special attention to his texts' material production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative and original case studies that Milton benefited from a collaborative process of writing and publishing, working with amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers in dramatic and surprising ways.
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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
This original study explores Milton's relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and little has been said about his dependence on other people for producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical circumstances with special attention to his texts' material production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative and original case studies that Milton benefited from a collaborative process of writing and publishing, working with amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers in dramatic and surprising ways.
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Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

by Stephen B. Dobranski
Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade

by Stephen B. Dobranski

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This original study explores Milton's relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and little has been said about his dependence on other people for producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical circumstances with special attention to his texts' material production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative and original case studies that Milton benefited from a collaborative process of writing and publishing, working with amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers in dramatic and surprising ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521119009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/03/2009
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: the author John Milton; 1. The labor of book-writing and book-making; 2. Restoring Samson Agonistes; 3. The myth of the solitary genius; 4. Fair Milton's counterfeit; 5. Letters and spirit in Areopagitica; 6. The mystery of Milton as licenser; 7. The poet John Milton, 1673; Afterword.
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