Centres and Peripheries: Early-Modern British Writers in a European Context. (12th June 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Centres and Peripheries: Early-Modern British Writers in a European Context. (12th June 2020)
- Main Title:
- Centres and Peripheries: Early-Modern British Writers in a European Context
- Authors:
- Stevenson, Jane
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The ESTC has privileged a view of Britain's early print culture focused on London, while making it hard to look at British contributions to continental print cultures. But there were readers in early-modern Britain who were acculturated elsewhere. Scots bought most of their books on the continent, preferring Latin or French to English, and published on the continent, bypassing London. In Britain as a whole, there are effectively three centres for British print culture, London, 'Rome' and 'Geneva'. The Netherlands printed for the English market, notably illicit bibles with Geneva notes, and particularly successful books were often issued there in Dutch or French, while British writers in Latin fed into continental literary fashions. Take-up of English literature as such was limited, partly because the Dutch did not admire English poetics. Most of what the Dutch translated from English was political or religious. Some English protestant writers were massively successful in translation, but translation into Dutch was almost always a first step from which their work was disseminated.
- Is Part Of:
- Library. Volume 21:Number 2(2020)
- Journal:
- Library
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Number 2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0021-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 157
- Page End:
- 191
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06-12
- Subjects:
- Bibliography -- Periodicals
Library science -- Periodicals
010.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://library.oupjournals.org/ ↗
http://library.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_library_the_transactions_of_the_bibliographical_society/ ↗
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/library/21.2.157 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0024-2160
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 5186.950000
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