The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (Table Talk) - John Selden

The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (Table Talk)

Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-966067-4 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
The Discourse of John Selden Esq. presents an annotated edition of the Table Talk of lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar John Selden (1584-1654). It draws on 21 manuscripts of the work with both general and textual introductions, the text itself, annotations, and significant emendations and collations, as well as a stemma.
This is the first fully annotated edition of The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (previously known as Table Talk) since 1892, the very first based on a critical scrutiny of twenty-one surviving manuscripts, fifteen more than any previous editor knew existed. This expanded census of manuscripts demonstrates robust scribal publication. Selden's extraordinary talent for lucidly expressed analogy and his mordant wit and wise opinions on 155 topics earned him praise from Dr. Johnson and Coleridge. The work, composed in the 1650s, was considered so irreverent that it remained in manuscript for more than thirty years before it could be printed. A long-serving member of Parliament and a minority lay member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, Selden provides intimate access to the political and religious debates of mid-seventeenth-century England, but he also addresses its high and low culture. Some of the topics are complex and require extensive contextual annotation, but the paragraphs that provide the greatest pleasure are the timeless and still timely ones that require only light annotation or none at all.

Jason P. Rosenblatt, Emeritus Professor of English at Georgetown University, is the author of John Selden: Scholar, Statesman, Advocate for Milton's Muse (Oxford, 2021), Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden (Oxford, 2006), and Torah and Law in 'Paradise Lost' (Princeton, 1994); editor of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose (W. W. Norton, 2011); and co-editor, with Joseph Sitterson, of a book on biblical narrative, 'Not in Heaven' (Indiana, 1991). He has held Guggenheim, Folger Library, and NEH fellowships. A recipient of the Milton Society of America's Hanford and (2) Shawcross awards, he was the Society's Honored Scholar for 2015. Joshua Eckhardt, Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, wrote Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (OUP, 2009) and Religion Around John Donne (Penn State UP, 2019), which received a Distinguished Publication Award from the John Donne Society.

Contents Sigla for Textual Sources
Abbreviations
Symbols and Abbreviations Used in the Textual Notes
General Introduction
Textual Introduction
The Discourse of John Selden, Esq.
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 6 illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-966067-0 / 0199660670
ISBN-13 978-0-19-966067-4 / 9780199660674
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