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EDMUND CAMPION MEMORY AND TRANSCRIPTION

Written by Gerard Kilroy
Published by Ashgate Publishing Company in 2005
ISBN: 0754652556

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.

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Cover of EDMUND CAMPION MEMORY AND TRANSCRIPTION by Gerard Kilroy

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