Genuine” Printings of Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs , 1715–1835
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8861882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tielke Uvin (0000-0002-5510-358X, Ghent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 479-500 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2018.1475593 |
| OpenAlex | W2810352313 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper studies the publishing of Isaac Watts’s Divine Songs in London between 1715, the year of its first edition, and 1835. The paper stresses the continuity between the publishing and advertising of this collection of children’s songs during the author’s lifetime, when it was issued by a group of small to modest dissenting booksellers, and its publication, after Watts’s death, by a conger surrounding the powerful Longman firm. It examines attempts by both sets of booksellers to present their printings of Watts’s texts as authentic. It then describes the standardisation of the content, (material) paratexts and pricing of the books they offered, ultimately defining them, because of their specificity as print-cultural products as well as in terms of their producing instances, as a continuous line of printings, which, on account of their producers’ social-commercial and/or proprietary links to Watts and his texts, can be characterised as “genuine”
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |