Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 243. $39.95. ISBN 0-8262-1317-0.

One of the happiest results of the emphasis on the conditions of literary production over the last two decades has been the heightened interest in what Arthur F. Marotti called "coterie" transmission, meaning the passing back and forth of texts among a small, like-minded audience, as opposed to print publication. Summers and Pebworth's anthology seeks to broaden and deepen ...

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