EDMUND CAMPION MEMORY AND TRANSCRIPTION
Written by Gerard Kilroy
Published by Ashgate Publishing Company
in 2005
ISBN: 0754652556
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EDMUND CAMPION MEMORY AND TRANSCRIPTION
Written by Gerard Kilroy.
Stock no. 1609869
1st.
2005.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between printed untruth and private handwritten truth in early modern England. New views about Campion's literary, historical and cultural impact. ISBN: 0754652556. SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication). Minor bumping to spine and corners. Wrapper slightly faded at spine.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Between the Lines
- PART I. THE HEART IN HIDING
- 1 Darkness Within: Letters from Prison
- 2 Edmund Campion: 'Sweetly in Verse'
- 3 'Paper, ynke and pen': a Literary Memoria
- 4 Sir John Harington: 'Wise Pretender of Foolery'
- 5 Within these Walls: the Interior Life of Sir Thomas Tresham
- PART II: TRANSCRIPTIONS
- Transcription I: Edmund Campion's Virgilian Epic
- Transcription II: 'Why doe I use my paper, ynke and pen'
- Transcription III: Four Decades: 'All my ydle Epigrams'
- Bibliography
- Index