Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754652557)

The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between the world of printed untruth and private, handwritten, truth in Elizabethan England. Gerard Kilroy here uncovers a fascinating network of scribal communities where Campion manuscripts circulated among a group of families dominated by Sir John Harington and Sir Thomas Tresham. His work provides startling new views about Campion's literary, historical and cultural impact in early modern England. The book lays the foundations of the first full literary assessment of Campion the scholar, the impact he had on the literature of early modern England, and the long legacy in manuscript writing.

Author: Gerard Kilroy
ISBN-10: 0754652556
ISBN-13: 9780754652557
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2005
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d