{"product_id":"doubtful-readers-erin-a-mccarthy-9780198836476","title":"Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England","description":"When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print publication radically expanded the early modern reading public. These new readers, publishers feared, might not buy or like the books. Worse, their misreadings could put the authors, the publishers, or the readers themselves at risk. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoubtful Readers: Print, Poetry, and the Reading Public in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on early modern publishers' efforts to identify and accommodate new readers of verse that had previously been restricted to particular social networks in manuscript. Focusing on the period between the maturing of the market for printed English literature in the 1590s and the emergence of the professional poet following the Restoration, this study shows that poetry was shaped by--and itself shaped--strong print publication traditions. By reading printed editions of poems by William Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, John Donne, and others, this book shows how publishers negotiated genre, gender, social access, reputation, literary knowledge, and the value of English literature itself. It uses literary, historical, bibliographical, and quantitative evidence to show how publishers' strategies changed over time. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eDoubtful Readers\u003c\/em\u003e argues that although--or perhaps because--publishers' interpretive and editorial efforts are often elided in studies of early modern poetry, their interventions have had an enduring impact on our canons, texts, and literary histories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin A. McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198836473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198836476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021","brand":"Erin A. McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047735718143,"sku":"9780198836476","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_73e71e31-55ff-4776-8c56-a9c56389f5d5.jpg?v=1684991894","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doubtful-readers-erin-a-mccarthy-9780198836476","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}