Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen A Bibliographical Tribute

by Starza Smith, Daniel; Wilkinson, Hazel

• ISBN13: 9780192871855
• ISBN10: 0192871854
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-01-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early modernists, book historians, and scholarly editors of his day, who retires as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 2024. It brings together essays by friends and colleagues spanning some 500 years of literary history, with a strong focus on texts and the people who produce them.

Author Biography

Daniel Starza Smith, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature, King's College London,Hazel Wilkinson, Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham

Daniel Starza Smith is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (1500-1700) at King's College London, having previously held roles at University College London, the University of Reading, and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow. His books include John Donne and the Conway Papers (based on a PhD supervised by Henry Woudhuysen), Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (edited with Joshua Eckhardt), and contributions to the Verse Letters volume of the landmark Donne Variorum. He is General Editor of the Oxford edition of Donne's prose letters and co-director of the Unlocking History research group.

Hazel Wilkinson is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches early modern and eighteenth-century literature. Her monograph, Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book (2017), based on a PhD supervised by Henry Woudhuysen at UCL, won the 2020 Isabel MacCaffrey Award from the International Spenser Society. She is a member of the editorial team of the Oxford Edition of the Writings of Alexander Pope, and the founder of the database of ornamental typography Compositor. She was awarded fellowship of the Alan Turing Centre in 2020-22 for her work on applying computer vision to the study of typography.

Table of Contents

Foreword, René WeisIntroduction, Daniel Starza Smith and Hazel Wilkinson1. 'Cum magna solicitudine': Passion, exegesis, and verse in John Grimestone's notebook, Ardis Butterfield2. Reading and rhyming in Black Friars, Susan Brigden3. Hermits and their meanings: performing retirement at the Elizabethan court, Helen Hackett4. Porcupine or pig? Sidney's role in the Nashe-Harvey quarrel, Andrew Hadfield5. 'Now am I in Arden: the more fool I': Love's Labour's Won and the Arden 3 Series, Emma Smith6. Mediating Shakespeare: thirteen ways of looking at editorial agency, Lukas Erne7. Sir John Spilman and the London rag gatherers, Heather Wolfe8. Foxe's Acts and Monuments as Pocket Devotional: Clement Cotton's Mirror of Martyrs (1613), a Seventeenth-Century Bestseller, Michael F. Suarez, SJ9. Pope's worms, Kate Bennett10. The assiduous reader: Thomas Green of Ipswich (1769-1825), Stephen Clarke11. 'How I would alter things!' The manuscript of The Ring and the Book, Daniel Karlin12. Editing Boswell's Life of Johnson: a nineteenth-century case study, Rosemary Ashton