- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- General Editors’ Preface
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- A Note on the Texts
- A Preface to the Reader: Describing ‘Literary Life’ in the Mid- and Late Seventeenth Century
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I. 1645 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1645–1658 -
III. Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image, and Word -
IV. Hearing, Speaking, Writing: Religious Discourse from the Pulpit, among the Congregations, and from the Prophets -
V. Fiction and Adventure Narratives: Romantic Foreigners and Native Romances -
VI. Sociable Texts: Manuscript Circulation, Writers, and Readers in Britain and Abroad -
I. 1659–1660 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1660–1673 -
III. Renovating the Stage: Companies, Actresses, Repertoire, Theatre Innovations, and the Touring Companies -
IV. Enacting Libertinism: Court Performance and Literary Culture -
V. Creating Science: The Royal Society and the New Literatures of Science -
VI. ‘Adventurous Song’: Samuel Butler, Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, John Milton, and 1660s Verse -
I. 1674–1675 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1674–1684 -
III. Poets and the Politics of Patronage and Literary Criticism -
IV. Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances -
V. Fictions: The Pilgrim’s Progress, the New ‘Novels’, and Love and Erotica -
VI. Foreign Parts: English Readers and Foreign Lands and Cultures -
I. 1685–1686 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1685–1699 -
III. Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads -
IV. Seen on Stage: English Operas, the Female Wits, and the ‘Reformed’ Stage -
V. Debates between the Sexes: Satires, Advice, and Polemics -
I. 1700 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Preaching, and Performance, 1700–1714 -
III. Kit-Cats and Scriblerians: Clubs, Wits, the Tatler, the Spectator, and The Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus -
IV. Booksellers and the Book Trade: John Dunton, Edmund Curll, Grub Street, and the Rise of Bernard Lintot -
V. ‘The Great Business of Poetry’: Poets, Pastoral, and Politics - Appendix: Table of Contents of The Oxford English Literary History Volume 5: 1645–1714: The Later Seventeenth Century (Companion Volume)
- Bibliography
- Index
Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image, and Word
Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image, and Word
- Chapter:
- III. Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image, and Word
- Source:
- The Oxford English Literary History
- Author(s):
Margaret J. M. Ezell
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The London publisher Humphrey Moseley produced over 300 titles between 1645 and 1660, many of them by writers now considered to be the period’s leading literary figures, including works by Donne, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Milton, and many royalist poets. Moseley was part of a publishing practice that offered readers portraits of living contemporary writers. During this period readers could also purchase expensive folios with engraved illustrations, such as John Ogilby’s translation of Aesop’s Fables.
Keywords: Humphrey Moseley, literary canon, royalist poetry, engravings, illustrations, frontispieces, author portraits
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- General Editors’ Preface
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- A Note on the Texts
- A Preface to the Reader: Describing ‘Literary Life’ in the Mid- and Late Seventeenth Century
-
I. 1645 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1645–1658 -
III. Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image, and Word -
IV. Hearing, Speaking, Writing: Religious Discourse from the Pulpit, among the Congregations, and from the Prophets -
V. Fiction and Adventure Narratives: Romantic Foreigners and Native Romances -
VI. Sociable Texts: Manuscript Circulation, Writers, and Readers in Britain and Abroad -
I. 1659–1660 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1660–1673 -
III. Renovating the Stage: Companies, Actresses, Repertoire, Theatre Innovations, and the Touring Companies -
IV. Enacting Libertinism: Court Performance and Literary Culture -
V. Creating Science: The Royal Society and the New Literatures of Science -
VI. ‘Adventurous Song’: Samuel Butler, Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, John Milton, and 1660s Verse -
I. 1674–1675 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1674–1684 -
III. Poets and the Politics of Patronage and Literary Criticism -
IV. Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances -
V. Fictions: The Pilgrim’s Progress, the New ‘Novels’, and Love and Erotica -
VI. Foreign Parts: English Readers and Foreign Lands and Cultures -
I. 1685–1686 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1685–1699 -
III. Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads -
IV. Seen on Stage: English Operas, the Female Wits, and the ‘Reformed’ Stage -
V. Debates between the Sexes: Satires, Advice, and Polemics -
I. 1700 -
II. Laws Regulating Publication, Preaching, and Performance, 1700–1714 -
III. Kit-Cats and Scriblerians: Clubs, Wits, the Tatler, the Spectator, and The Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus -
IV. Booksellers and the Book Trade: John Dunton, Edmund Curll, Grub Street, and the Rise of Bernard Lintot -
V. ‘The Great Business of Poetry’: Poets, Pastoral, and Politics - Appendix: Table of Contents of The Oxford English Literary History Volume 5: 1645–1714: The Later Seventeenth Century (Companion Volume)
- Bibliography
- Index
