Textual Transformations Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Whitehouse, Tessa; Keeble, N. H.

• ISBN13: 9780198808817
• ISBN10: 019880881X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Tessa Whitehouse, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London,N. H. Keeble, Emeritus Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling

Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 (2015) and essays on aspects of nonconformist literary culture. She has contributed chapters to several major collections: one on spiritual autobiography for A History of English Autobiography (2016), another on dissenters' print culture for the Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (2018), and one for A History of Dissenting Academies in the British Isles 1660-1860 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), edited by Isabel Rivers.


N. H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus of English Studies at the University of Stirling. His academic and research interests lie in English literary and religious history of the period 1500-1725. His publications include studies of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (Clarendon Press, 1982), The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later seventeenth-century England (Leicester University Press, 1987), The Restoration: England in the 1660s (Blackwell, 2002) and (with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (Clarendon Press, 1991). He has edited four collections of original essays, texts by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Lucy Hutchinson, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and (with John Coffey, Tim Cooper, and Thomas Charlton) Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Neil Keeble and Tessa Whitehouse
Part I. Production and Dissemination
1. Transforming the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: John Nourse and his Bookshops on the Strand, James Raven
2. Friendship and Eighteen-Century Nonconformist Memorial Publication, Tessa Whitehouse
3. Manuscript in the House of Print: Richardson and Media Shift after 1700, Thomas Keymer
4. Unitarian Activism and the Politics of the Subscription Library: Bury St. Edmunds in the 1790s, Christopher Reid
Part II. Authorship and Editing
5. Attempting to Transform Public Opinion: The Publishing Career of Richard Baxter, 1662-96, Neil Keeble
6. Authorship and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Collected Works: The Case of John Tillotson, Rosemary Dixon
7. Remaking Verse in the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany, Abigail Williams
8. In Good Company: The Business of Abridgments in Eighteenth-Century England, Michael F. Suarez, S. J.
Part III. Reception
9. Editing Shadows: The Changing Text of Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Mark Burden
10. 'Generous men will spare the memory of the dead': The Posthumous Publication of Writings by Thomas Burnet, Scott Mandelbrote
11. Reading Henry Maundrell's Sacred Geography in Eighteenth-Century England and Germany, Simon Mills
12. Coleridge's Shakespearean Transformation of Schiller's Wallenstein Plays, James Vigus