Textual Transformations
Purposing and Repurposing Books from Richard Baxter to Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edited by Tessa Whitehouse and N. H. Keeble
Author Information
Edited by Tessa Whitehouse, Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London, and N. H. Keeble, Emeritus Professor of English Studies, University of Stirling
Tessa Whitehouse is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 (2015) and essays on aspects of nonconformist literary culture. She has contributed chapters to several major collections: one on spiritual autobiography for A History of English Autobiography (2016), another on dissenters' print culture for the Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions (2018), and one for A History of Dissenting Academies in the British Isles 1660-1860 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), edited by Isabel Rivers.
N. H. Keeble is Professor Emeritus of English Studies at the University of Stirling. His academic and research interests lie in English literary and religious history of the period 1500-1725. His publications include studies of Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters (Clarendon Press, 1982), The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in later seventeenth-century England (Leicester University Press, 1987), The Restoration: England in the 1660s (Blackwell, 2002) and (with Geoffrey F. Nuttall) a two-volume Calendar of the Correspondence of Richard Baxter (Clarendon Press, 1991). He has edited four collections of original essays, texts by John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, Lucy Hutchinson, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and (with John Coffey, Tim Cooper, and Thomas Charlton) Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
Contributors:
Mark Burden, University of Bristol
Rosemary Dixon, Bain & Company
N. H. Keeble, University of Stirling
Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto
Scott Mandelbrote, University of Cambridge
Simon Mills, Newcastle University
James Raven, University of Essex
Christopher Reid, Queen Mary University of London
Michael F. Suarez, S. J., University of Virginia
James Vigus, Queen Mary University of London
Tessa Whitehouse, Queen Mary University of London
Abigail Williams, University of Oxford