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

Name: The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (Table Talk)
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199660674
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Contributors:

John Selden, Jason P. Rosenblatt, Joshua Eckhardt

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, History

Book Subcategory:

Renaissance, Modern

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Release Date:

5/5/2025

ISBN 13:

9780199660674

Weight:

1.05 lbs

Size:

8.80 x 6.10 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

224

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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.

About the Author
John Selden

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.

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

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