Beth L. Glixon and Jonathan E. Glixon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195154160
- eISBN:
- 9780199868483
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154160.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter takes a broad look at the opera libretto; it considers the profession of librettist, the selection of the libretto for a particular season, publishing and printing privileges, revisions ...
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This chapter takes a broad look at the opera libretto; it considers the profession of librettist, the selection of the libretto for a particular season, publishing and printing privileges, revisions to the libretto, and the libretto as a source of income. During the 17th century, a number of men became professional rather than occasional librettists, and most librettos performed in Venice were written by Venetians themselves. The initial cost of the libretto was often borne by the printer, who then distributed profits either to the librettist or the impresario and his partners. The librettist also stood to gain a profit through the fees from dedication. As a result, an impresario could gain extra income for his company by mounting a revival — that is a previously performed libretto — thereby bypassing the need for a librettist altogether. Librettos were not just purchased for use at the theater, but were also preserved in collections, as well as sent to those unable to attend the performances themselves.Less
This chapter takes a broad look at the opera libretto; it considers the profession of librettist, the selection of the libretto for a particular season, publishing and printing privileges, revisions to the libretto, and the libretto as a source of income. During the 17th century, a number of men became professional rather than occasional librettists, and most librettos performed in Venice were written by Venetians themselves. The initial cost of the libretto was often borne by the printer, who then distributed profits either to the librettist or the impresario and his partners. The librettist also stood to gain a profit through the fees from dedication. As a result, an impresario could gain extra income for his company by mounting a revival — that is a previously performed libretto — thereby bypassing the need for a librettist altogether. Librettos were not just purchased for use at the theater, but were also preserved in collections, as well as sent to those unable to attend the performances themselves.
Alexander Kluge
Richard Langston (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501739200
- eISBN:
- 9781501739224
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501739200.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter presents Alexander Kluge's oblique meditation on books and collecting. In a letter to a Mr. B., Kluge describes his library and his relation to books. He claims that books have a will of ...
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This chapter presents Alexander Kluge's oblique meditation on books and collecting. In a letter to a Mr. B., Kluge describes his library and his relation to books. He claims that books have a will of their own. They find each other on their own accord. That is the principle guiding their rows, stacks, and piles. He says he does not own books he most admires; he lives with them. What Kluge finds trustworthy about books is that they connect centuries. No other medium connects authors over 2,000 years so reliably as the book. Ultimately, how Kluge treats his beloved books cannot be compared to the nurturing of a library. He then details how, in his parents' house, books were kept in an orderly fashion in the so-called gentlemen's study. This room was not for reading, but rather was especially meant for playing bridge.Less
This chapter presents Alexander Kluge's oblique meditation on books and collecting. In a letter to a Mr. B., Kluge describes his library and his relation to books. He claims that books have a will of their own. They find each other on their own accord. That is the principle guiding their rows, stacks, and piles. He says he does not own books he most admires; he lives with them. What Kluge finds trustworthy about books is that they connect centuries. No other medium connects authors over 2,000 years so reliably as the book. Ultimately, how Kluge treats his beloved books cannot be compared to the nurturing of a library. He then details how, in his parents' house, books were kept in an orderly fashion in the so-called gentlemen's study. This room was not for reading, but rather was especially meant for playing bridge.
David Pearson
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198870128
- eISBN:
- 9780191912955
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198870128.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile ...
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Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile collecting from the eighteenth century onwards, this chapter considers the extent to which similar behaviours can be detected (or not) in the seventeenth, drawing on the material evidence of bookbindings, wording in wills, and other sources. Do we find subject-based collecting, of the kind we are familiar with today, as a characteristic of early modern book owners? Some distinctions are recognized in ways in which medieval manuscripts (as opposed to printed books) were brought together at this time. The relationship between libraries and museums, and contemporary attitudes to them, is explored. The concluding argument is that ‘collecting’ is a careless word to use in the seventeenth-century context; just as we should talk about users rather than readers, we should use ‘owners’ rather than ‘collectors’ as the default term, unless there is evidence to the contrary.Less
Studies of private libraries and their owners invariably talk about ‘book collecting’—is this the right terminology? After summarizing our broadly held understanding of the evolution of bibliophile collecting from the eighteenth century onwards, this chapter considers the extent to which similar behaviours can be detected (or not) in the seventeenth, drawing on the material evidence of bookbindings, wording in wills, and other sources. Do we find subject-based collecting, of the kind we are familiar with today, as a characteristic of early modern book owners? Some distinctions are recognized in ways in which medieval manuscripts (as opposed to printed books) were brought together at this time. The relationship between libraries and museums, and contemporary attitudes to them, is explored. The concluding argument is that ‘collecting’ is a careless word to use in the seventeenth-century context; just as we should talk about users rather than readers, we should use ‘owners’ rather than ‘collectors’ as the default term, unless there is evidence to the contrary.
Patrick Collier
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474413473
- eISBN:
- 9781474426824
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413473.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The London Mercury attained popularity and notoriety as the leading anti-modernist voice of the early 1920s. It reached more than 10,000 circulation by presenting itself as a voice of reason in an ...
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The London Mercury attained popularity and notoriety as the leading anti-modernist voice of the early 1920s. It reached more than 10,000 circulation by presenting itself as a voice of reason in an age of critical anarchy, and its material form communicated seriousness of mission, tasteful restraint, and allusion to the great Victorian quarterlies. This chapter argues that, through a combination of economic necessity and editorial eccentricity, the Mercury went on to posit solid, material objects—particularly fine and rare books, but also collectible furniture and historic churches—as loci of stable value. The Mercury shored up its readership by appealing to rare and fine book enthusiasts and the businesses that catered to them. Combined with its literary partisanship, which began to appear increasingly reactionary, this emphasis on high-end textual materiality implicitly but powerfully posited reading as an activity of the leisured and educated, book-buying as a hobby for those with ample disposable income. Its ethos of value-in-the-object reached its reductio ad absurdum in the early 1930s, in two special issues on book production and typography, in which the magazine effectively became an advertiser-cum-trade-journal for London’s high-end printing concerns.Less
The London Mercury attained popularity and notoriety as the leading anti-modernist voice of the early 1920s. It reached more than 10,000 circulation by presenting itself as a voice of reason in an age of critical anarchy, and its material form communicated seriousness of mission, tasteful restraint, and allusion to the great Victorian quarterlies. This chapter argues that, through a combination of economic necessity and editorial eccentricity, the Mercury went on to posit solid, material objects—particularly fine and rare books, but also collectible furniture and historic churches—as loci of stable value. The Mercury shored up its readership by appealing to rare and fine book enthusiasts and the businesses that catered to them. Combined with its literary partisanship, which began to appear increasingly reactionary, this emphasis on high-end textual materiality implicitly but powerfully posited reading as an activity of the leisured and educated, book-buying as a hobby for those with ample disposable income. Its ethos of value-in-the-object reached its reductio ad absurdum in the early 1930s, in two special issues on book production and typography, in which the magazine effectively became an advertiser-cum-trade-journal for London’s high-end printing concerns.
Karen G Baston
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474408851
- eISBN:
- 9781474418522
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408851.003.0014
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
Charles Areskine of Alva, a Scottish advocate of the first half of the eighteenth century, combined his professional activities with an academic interest in the sources of law. The books he collected ...
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Charles Areskine of Alva, a Scottish advocate of the first half of the eighteenth century, combined his professional activities with an academic interest in the sources of law. The books he collected for his private library show his interest in legal humanism but they are not limited to this tradition of legal scholarship. Areskine read and used his books in legal practice: any of his books, including those by classical authors and early modern humanists, had the potential to provide sources for legal arguments in the Scottish Court of Session. Areskine’s books offer a challenge to traditional interpretations of legal history since they reveal the continuing use of legal texts beyond set parameters of presumed stages in legal development. However, Scottish lawyers collected not just the books they needed to create legal arguments but also the texts they needed to engage with the sociable culture of the Scottish Enlightenment.Less
Charles Areskine of Alva, a Scottish advocate of the first half of the eighteenth century, combined his professional activities with an academic interest in the sources of law. The books he collected for his private library show his interest in legal humanism but they are not limited to this tradition of legal scholarship. Areskine read and used his books in legal practice: any of his books, including those by classical authors and early modern humanists, had the potential to provide sources for legal arguments in the Scottish Court of Session. Areskine’s books offer a challenge to traditional interpretations of legal history since they reveal the continuing use of legal texts beyond set parameters of presumed stages in legal development. However, Scottish lawyers collected not just the books they needed to create legal arguments but also the texts they needed to engage with the sociable culture of the Scottish Enlightenment.
David Pearson
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198870128
- eISBN:
- 9780191912955
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198870128.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
An account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of many thousands of ...
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An account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of many thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners from many backgrounds. It considers questions of evolution, contents, and size, and motives for book ownership, during a century when growing markets for both new and second-hand books meant that books would be found, in varying numbers, in the homes of all kinds of people, from the humble to the wealthy. Topics explored include the balance of motivation between books for use or for display; the relationship between libraries and museums; and cultures of collecting. While presenting a great deal of information in this field, conveniently brought together, the book also advances methodologies for book history. It challenges much received wisdom around our priorities for studying private libraries, and the terminology which is appropriate to use.Less
An account of the development and importance of private libraries and book ownership through the seventeenth century, based upon many kinds of evidence, including examination of many thousands of books, and a list of over 1,300 known owners from many backgrounds. It considers questions of evolution, contents, and size, and motives for book ownership, during a century when growing markets for both new and second-hand books meant that books would be found, in varying numbers, in the homes of all kinds of people, from the humble to the wealthy. Topics explored include the balance of motivation between books for use or for display; the relationship between libraries and museums; and cultures of collecting. While presenting a great deal of information in this field, conveniently brought together, the book also advances methodologies for book history. It challenges much received wisdom around our priorities for studying private libraries, and the terminology which is appropriate to use.
Giles Bergel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199545810
- eISBN:
- 9780191803475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses the history of The Chap-Book — a magazine that was sometimes ambiguously positioned between a commercial mainstream and a more coterie publication of the bibelot variety. The ...
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This chapter discusses the history of The Chap-Book — a magazine that was sometimes ambiguously positioned between a commercial mainstream and a more coterie publication of the bibelot variety. The Chap-Book's main legacy was in its design and reinvention of the eighteenth-century ‘chap-book’ form for modern audiences. Even here, however, its uncertain status between commerce and culture can be discerned in the commercial origins of its name (a ‘chapbook’ being a pamphlet sold by an early incarnation of the travelling salesman) and in its instant appeal to the book-collecting market.Less
This chapter discusses the history of The Chap-Book — a magazine that was sometimes ambiguously positioned between a commercial mainstream and a more coterie publication of the bibelot variety. The Chap-Book's main legacy was in its design and reinvention of the eighteenth-century ‘chap-book’ form for modern audiences. Even here, however, its uncertain status between commerce and culture can be discerned in the commercial origins of its name (a ‘chapbook’ being a pamphlet sold by an early incarnation of the travelling salesman) and in its instant appeal to the book-collecting market.
David Pearson
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198870128
- eISBN:
- 9780191912955
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198870128.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Summary statistics are given for the distribution of private libraries across different professional backgrounds, considered in the context of work which has been done in this field, and assumptions ...
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Summary statistics are given for the distribution of private libraries across different professional backgrounds, considered in the context of work which has been done in this field, and assumptions which are commonly made (but which need to be challenged). The chapter considers methodological approaches to private library history, and describes those underpinning this book. The broader national context within which book ownership history should be considered is set out. The content (and exclusions) of the book are more fully described, with reference to other relevant work, and the limitations created by our imperfect evidence base are acknowledged.Less
Summary statistics are given for the distribution of private libraries across different professional backgrounds, considered in the context of work which has been done in this field, and assumptions which are commonly made (but which need to be challenged). The chapter considers methodological approaches to private library history, and describes those underpinning this book. The broader national context within which book ownership history should be considered is set out. The content (and exclusions) of the book are more fully described, with reference to other relevant work, and the limitations created by our imperfect evidence base are acknowledged.
Kathy Peiss
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190944612
- eISBN:
- 9780190944643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190944612.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, European Modern History
After the war, the new Librarian of Congress Luther Evans worked with State and War Department officials on a plan to send library agents to Europe. The agents would acquire every book published in ...
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After the war, the new Librarian of Congress Luther Evans worked with State and War Department officials on a plan to send library agents to Europe. The agents would acquire every book published in Germany and occupied countries and distribute them to American research libraries. The Library of Congress Mission to Europe was a unique collecting effort that acquired 1.5 million books, periodicals, and other materials. Initially a book-purchasing plan, it evolved into an industrial-scale acquisitions program under the American military government in Germany. It seized works from research institutes, specialized libraries, and Nazi collections, helped US Army document centers screen confiscated works, and acquired materials deemed to have no intelligence value. In its short existence, the mission embodied a new commitment among American research libraries, that large international collections were necessary to serve the national interest.Less
After the war, the new Librarian of Congress Luther Evans worked with State and War Department officials on a plan to send library agents to Europe. The agents would acquire every book published in Germany and occupied countries and distribute them to American research libraries. The Library of Congress Mission to Europe was a unique collecting effort that acquired 1.5 million books, periodicals, and other materials. Initially a book-purchasing plan, it evolved into an industrial-scale acquisitions program under the American military government in Germany. It seized works from research institutes, specialized libraries, and Nazi collections, helped US Army document centers screen confiscated works, and acquired materials deemed to have no intelligence value. In its short existence, the mission embodied a new commitment among American research libraries, that large international collections were necessary to serve the national interest.
Tom Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198800095
- eISBN:
- 9780191839870
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198800095.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion, European Early Modern History
Following the defeat of the League, L’Estoile kept an increasingly detailed record of his collecting activities. This chapter demonstrates how L’Estoile’s responses to the books he collected were ...
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Following the defeat of the League, L’Estoile kept an increasingly detailed record of his collecting activities. This chapter demonstrates how L’Estoile’s responses to the books he collected were characterized by exchanges in the society surrounding the Palais de Justice, made up of its printers, bookbinders, scribes, office-holders, and the erudite humanists whose legal training drew them into its orbit. It sets out how L’Estoile managed his library, how he read books with erudite, Gallican friends, and then how he inherited and passed them on within his family. At the end of the civil wars, L’Estoile was no passive observer of Parisian erudition, but a key figure in its intellectual culture whose collection attracted visits from friends and family, as well as collectors from across Europe.Less
Following the defeat of the League, L’Estoile kept an increasingly detailed record of his collecting activities. This chapter demonstrates how L’Estoile’s responses to the books he collected were characterized by exchanges in the society surrounding the Palais de Justice, made up of its printers, bookbinders, scribes, office-holders, and the erudite humanists whose legal training drew them into its orbit. It sets out how L’Estoile managed his library, how he read books with erudite, Gallican friends, and then how he inherited and passed them on within his family. At the end of the civil wars, L’Estoile was no passive observer of Parisian erudition, but a key figure in its intellectual culture whose collection attracted visits from friends and family, as well as collectors from across Europe.
Kathy Peiss
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190944612
- eISBN:
- 9780190944643
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190944612.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, European Modern History
Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies ...
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Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies’ cause. They traveled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gathered countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, and participated in the denazification of book collections. Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked on these missions and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin, and in German caves and mineshafts. The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus of national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. These efforts also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries’ ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually.Less
Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies’ cause. They traveled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the war, they seized Nazi works from bookstores and schools and gathered countless looted Jewish books. Improvising library techniques in wartime conditions, they contributed to Allied intelligence, preserved endangered books, engaged in restitution, and participated in the denazification of book collections. Information Hunters explores what collecting meant to the men and women who embarked on these missions and how the challenges of a total war led to an intense focus on books and documents. It uncovers the worlds of collecting, in spy-ridden Stockholm and Lisbon, in liberated Paris and devastated Berlin, and in German caves and mineshafts. The wartime collecting missions had lasting effects. They intensified the relationship between libraries and academic institutions, on the one hand, and the government and military, on the other. Book and document acquisition became part of the apparatus of national security, military planning, and postwar reconstruction. These efforts also spurred the development of information science and boosted research libraries’ ambitions to be great national repositories for research and the dissemination of knowledge that would support American global leadership, politically and intellectually.
Alexander Statman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198779919
- eISBN:
- 9780191825927
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779919.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
The chapter discusses Western book collecting in China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It draws from Noël Golvers' Libraries of Western Learning for China and its volume Formation of ...
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The chapter discusses Western book collecting in China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It draws from Noël Golvers' Libraries of Western Learning for China and its volume Formation of Jesuit Libraries (2013), which contains accounts of Jesuit missions during the period and how the Jesuit-run libraries were built, maintained, and dismantled. Golvers relies almost entirely on archival documents, with lengthy quotations throughout the text in at least six European languages and many supplemental graphs, tables, and lists. The main argument is that in the early seventeenth century, the missionaries Nicolas Trigault and Niccolò Longobardo formulated a centralised program for procuring European books and organizing them in China, but it comes off largely as an afterthought. What Golvers actually shows is just how diverse the Jesuit libraries really were. He addresses themes, such as the division between communal and private libraries, the circulation of books, and the continuity of collections.Less
The chapter discusses Western book collecting in China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It draws from Noël Golvers' Libraries of Western Learning for China and its volume Formation of Jesuit Libraries (2013), which contains accounts of Jesuit missions during the period and how the Jesuit-run libraries were built, maintained, and dismantled. Golvers relies almost entirely on archival documents, with lengthy quotations throughout the text in at least six European languages and many supplemental graphs, tables, and lists. The main argument is that in the early seventeenth century, the missionaries Nicolas Trigault and Niccolò Longobardo formulated a centralised program for procuring European books and organizing them in China, but it comes off largely as an afterthought. What Golvers actually shows is just how diverse the Jesuit libraries really were. He addresses themes, such as the division between communal and private libraries, the circulation of books, and the continuity of collections.
Frank Ferguson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198187318
- eISBN:
- 9780191803277
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780198187318.003.0035
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter outlines the history of publishing Ulster-Scots vernacular texts in Ulster in the nineteenth century and discusses the parallel activity of the collecting of these materials in Ulster, ...
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This chapter outlines the history of publishing Ulster-Scots vernacular texts in Ulster in the nineteenth century and discusses the parallel activity of the collecting of these materials in Ulster, together with examples of Scottish literature. It assesses the impact of Robert Burns on the production of vernacular poetry in the northeast of the province and explores the poets’ relationship to Burns and their wider sense of affiliation to Scotland and Ireland. It considers the example of two significant collectors of local and Scottish verse — William Fee McKinney (1832–1917) and Andrew Gibson (1841–1931) — who lived in or near Belfast in the late nineteenth century, and charts how the different approaches to book collecting in the latter part of the nineteenth century demonstrate the variety of ways in which Ulster-Scots and Scottish materials were embraced by northerners at a time of the literary revival.Less
This chapter outlines the history of publishing Ulster-Scots vernacular texts in Ulster in the nineteenth century and discusses the parallel activity of the collecting of these materials in Ulster, together with examples of Scottish literature. It assesses the impact of Robert Burns on the production of vernacular poetry in the northeast of the province and explores the poets’ relationship to Burns and their wider sense of affiliation to Scotland and Ireland. It considers the example of two significant collectors of local and Scottish verse — William Fee McKinney (1832–1917) and Andrew Gibson (1841–1931) — who lived in or near Belfast in the late nineteenth century, and charts how the different approaches to book collecting in the latter part of the nineteenth century demonstrate the variety of ways in which Ulster-Scots and Scottish materials were embraced by northerners at a time of the literary revival.
J. Sears McGee
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804785464
- eISBN:
- 9780804794282
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804785464.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Although D’Ewes and his wife expected to enjoy life at Stow Hall after Paul D’Ewes’s death, a series of conflicts with Richard Damport, the rector of Stowlangtoft, produced periods of exile in ...
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Although D’Ewes and his wife expected to enjoy life at Stow Hall after Paul D’Ewes’s death, a series of conflicts with Richard Damport, the rector of Stowlangtoft, produced periods of exile in Lavenham and elsewhere for the couple and their family in the 1630s. Eight of the ten children Anne bore died very young, and they agonized over those losses repeatedly. D’Ewes also saw to the completion of his brother Richard’s upbringing and education and corresponded with him when the young man went on lengthy journeys on the Continent. D’Ewes continued his research project and library building. He also completed his journals of the parliaments of Queen Elizabeth I.Less
Although D’Ewes and his wife expected to enjoy life at Stow Hall after Paul D’Ewes’s death, a series of conflicts with Richard Damport, the rector of Stowlangtoft, produced periods of exile in Lavenham and elsewhere for the couple and their family in the 1630s. Eight of the ten children Anne bore died very young, and they agonized over those losses repeatedly. D’Ewes also saw to the completion of his brother Richard’s upbringing and education and corresponded with him when the young man went on lengthy journeys on the Continent. D’Ewes continued his research project and library building. He also completed his journals of the parliaments of Queen Elizabeth I.