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EDMUND CAMPION MEMORY AND TRANSCRIPTION

by Gerard Kilroy

Published by Ashgate Publishing Company. 1st. 2005

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.

SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication). Minor bumping to spine and corners. Wrapper slightly faded at spine.

ISBN: 0754652556
Stock no. 1609869

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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

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