The "press and the fire": print and manuscript culture in Donne's circle.
| Publisher | Rice University |
| Publication | Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0039-3657 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v33 |
| Issue | n1 |
| Published | 1993-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | John Donne |
| Author | n/a | Richard B. Wollman |
Recent critics of Donne have focused on conditions of writing, that is, on the important (and troublesome) fact that as a poet Donne actively shunned print throughout his lifetime and chose to remain a "coterie poet" whose writing existed almost exclusively in manuscript.(1) This is a fruitful area of study, since analysis of the competing pressures of manuscript and print culture in the seventeenth century can provide new ways to understand Donne (and many others) in their own context. However, Donne criticism in its effort to be new, is ironically replicating a tradition that begins...
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