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Standardising English spelling : The role of printing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century graphemic developments
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ISBN: 9781009099912 9781009098144 9781009096812 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The standardisation of English spelling that resulted from the advent of printing is one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of English. This pioneering book explores new avenues of investigation into spelling development by looking at the Early Modern English period, when irregular features across graphemes became standardised. It traces the development of the English spelling system through a number of 'competing' standards, raising questions about the meaning of 'standardisation'. It introduces a new model for the analysis of large-scale graphemic developments from a diachronic perspective, and provides a new empirical method geared specifically to the study of spelling standardisation between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The method is applied to four interconnected case studies, focusing on the standardisation of positional spellings, i and y, etymological spelling and vowel diacritic spelling. This book is essential reading for researchers of writing systems and the history of English.


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(Re-)Inventio : Die Neuauflage als kreative Praxis in der nordalpinen Druckgraphik der Frühen Neuzeit

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Die in der Frühen Neuzeit gängige Praxis der Neuauflage druckgraphischer Einzelblätter und Serien war nicht nur von ökonomischen Interessen der Verleger geleitet, sondern zugleich Ausdruck einer innovativen ästhetischen Auseinandersetzung mit bestehenden Bildfindungen. Das Spektrum dieses produktiven Umgangs mit etablierten Inventionen umfasste unveränderte Wiederauflagen respektive Kopien, aber auch konzeptuelle Überarbeitungen und Ergänzungen sowie programmatische Umkontextualisierungen. Im Anschluss an neuere kunsthistorische Forschungen, die im Akt des zeichnerischen, malerischen oder druckgraphischen Reproduzierens ein signifikantes gestalterisches Potenzial erkannt haben, sollen derartige Neukonfigurationen in der nordalpinen Druckgraphik als mediale Formen kreativer Aneignung begriffen werden. In diesem Sinne sind Neuauflagen als (Re-)Inventionen zu verstehen, deren spezifischen visuellen Strategien der Anlehnung an und Abweichung von vorhergehenden Auflagen sich der interdisziplinäre Band widmen möchte. Anhand von Fallstudien wird untersucht, inwieweit sich die nach wie vor diskutierten Fragen nach den sozioökonomischen Faktoren der Produktion und Rezeption von Druckgraphiken mit Überlegungen zu deren Relevanz als kultureller Artikulationsraum und Medium künstlerischer (Selbst-)Reflexion verbinden lassen. This interdisciplinary volume examines a practice that was common in the early modern north Alpine region, namely the making of new edition prints, and argues that it was a complex aesthetic strategy of creative appropriation. It focuses on the socioeconomic factors involved in the production and reception of print (re-)inventions and considers their relevance as a space of cultural articulation and a medium of artistic (self-)reflection.


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The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature
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ISBN: 3030818187 3030818195 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary change in this society's attitude toward writing. Combining socio-cultural history and literary studies and drawing on a large corpus of autobiographies, memoirs, and literary works of the period, the book sets out to explain the curious absence of writing skills and Hebrew grammar from the curriculum of the traditional Jewish education system in Eastern Europe. It shows that traditional Jewish society maintained a conspicuously oral literacy culture, colored by fears of writing and suspicions toward publication. It is against this background that the young yeshiva students undergoing enlightenment started to “sin by writing,” turning writing and publication in Hebrew into the cornerstone of their constitution as autonomous, enlightened, male Jewish subjects, and setting the foundations for the rise of modern Hebrew literature.


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Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period
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ISBN: 3030880540 3030880559 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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“This collection exemplifies the advances in the intellectual domain of book history in recent decades. There are new insights here for scholars and students not only of book history but also for other cultural, social and economic historians.” —John Feather, Loughborough University “This highly engaging and multifaceted collection of essays addresses in exciting new ways British regional histories of printing and bookselling in the hand press period from the mid-fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. By focusing on the agency of place in writing, production and distribution, contributors vividly illuminate the interactions between trades and communities and the legislative and institutional structures governing them, but also how those involved in regional printing and book trades created particular and often widely influential narratives about their regions. This welcome re-evaluation of regional print production challenges and reinvigorates the whole history of print in Britain across more than four centuries.” —James Raven FBA, Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural contributions. Works printed in regional communities were a crucial part of developing narratives of local industrial, technological, and ideological progression. By moving away from understanding of print cultures outside of London as ‘provincial’, however, this book argues for a new understanding of ‘region’ as part of a network of places, emphasising opportunities for collaboration and creation that demonstrate the key role of regions within larger communities extending from the nation to the emerging sense of globality in this period. Through investigations of the men and women of the print trades outside of London, this collection casts new light on the strategies of self-representation evident in the work of regional print cultures, as well as their contributions to individual regional identities and national narratives. Rachel Stenner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature (2018) and co-editor of the collection of essays Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (2019). Kaley Kramer is Deputy Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the co-editor of Women During the English Reformations (Palgrave 2014) and Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave 2020). Adam James Smith is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at York St John University, UK. He works on cheap eighteenth-century political print, with a particular interest in works of protest and satire. Smith has published on Joseph Addison, James Montgomery and Eliza Haywood.


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The Inner World of Gatekeeping in Scholarly Publication
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ISBN: 3031065182 3031065190 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This edited book focuses on the certifiers of scientific knowledge, bringing together experts in a variety of areas in Applied Linguistics to address the complex topic of editing and reviewing in writing for scholarly publication. Drawing on insider perspectives, the authors bring to the fore personal histories, narratives and first-hand accounts of editors and reviewers and help paint a richer and more nuanced picture of the discourses, practices, experiences, success stories, failures, and challenges that frame and shape trajectories of both Anglophone and English as an additional language (EAL) scholars in adjudicating and accrediting academic output. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, supervisors, writing mentors, early-career scholars and graduate students in a variety of fields. Pejman Habibie is an Assistant Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Western University, Canada. He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes and a founding co-editor of book series Routledge Studies in English for Research Publication Purposes. Anna Kristina Hultgren is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at The Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the interconnectedness of language and ongoing societal, political and economic restructuring.


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Mediating cultural memory in Britain and Ireland : from the 1688 revolution to the 1745 Jacobite rising
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ISBN: 1009039768 1009041398 1316510816 1009041193 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses on five pivotal episodes in the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland: the 1688 'Glorious' Revolution; the War of the Two Kings in Ireland (1688-91); the Scottish colonial enterprise in Darien (1695-1700); the 1715 Jacobite Rising; and the 1745 Jacobite Rising. She explores the initial inscription of these episodes in forms such as ballads, official documents, manuscript newsletters, correspondence, newspapers and popular histories, and examines how counter-memories of these events continued to circulate in later mediations. Bringing together Memory Studies, Book History and British Studies, Mediating Cultural Memory offers a new interpretation of the early eighteenth century as a crucial stage in the development of cultural memory and illuminates the processes of remembrance and forgetting that have shaped the nation of Britain.


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Printing Spinoza : A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9004467998 900446798X Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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"In Printing Spinoza Jeroen van de Ven systematically examines all seventeenth-century printed editions of Spinoza's writings, published between 1663 and 1694, as well as their variant 'issues'. In focus are Spinoza's 1663 adumbration of Rene´ Descartes's 'Principles of Philosophy' with his own 'Metaphysical Thoughts', the 'Theological-Political Treatise' (1670), and the posthumous writings (1677), including the famously-known 'Ethics'. Van de Ven's descriptive bibliography studies, contextualizes, and records all aspects of the publication history of Spinoza's writings from manuscript to print and assesses their immediate reception. It discusses the printed books' codicology, philology, typographical and textual relationships, illustration programmes, as well as their dissemination in early Enlightenment Europe, in view of the physical aspects of 1,246 extant copies and their provenance"--


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Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing : The Absent Author
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ISBN: 3031038983 3031038975 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the “author function”, and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in Europe but often neglected by scholarship. The reasons why authors chose to publish their works anonymously were manifold, including prudence, fear of censorship, modesty, fear of personal criticism, or simple divertissement. In many cases, it was an ethical choice, especially for ecclesiastics. The Italian case provides a key perspective on the study of anonymity in the European context, contributing to the analysis of an overlooked topic in academic studies. Lodovica Braida is Professor of History of the Book at the University of Milan, Italy. Her work is devoted to the history of written culture and reading practices in early modern Europe, particularly in Italy, in a perspective of sociocultural history that dialogues with bibliography, literary criticism, and intellectual history.


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The industry of evangelism : printing for the Reformation in Martin Luther's Wittenberg
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ISBN: 9789004462427 9789004462403 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Of the leading print centres in early modern Europe, Wittenberg was the only one that was not a major centre of trade, politics, or culture. This monograph examines the rise of the Wittenberg printing industry and analyses how it overtook the Empire's leading print centres. It investigates the workshops of the four leading printers in Wittenberg during Luther's lifetime: Nickel Schirlentz, Josef Klug, Hans Lufft, and Georg Rhau. Together, these printers conquered the German print world.

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