The young Joyce is supposed to have written a lost play dedicated "To My own
Soul." (The introverted Ibsenism of 'Exiles' bears this dedication out.)
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 10:28:12 -0400
Joel Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So a dedication to someone deceased might also be a declaration that one
>needs no patronage and has no financial need attached to the book in
>question -- a kind of stepping above the (soon-to-be) Grub Street fray?
>
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> On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:57 PM, andrew zurcher wrote:
>
>> Something I meant to mention earlier, but forgot, alas:
>> Virgils Gnat. Long since dedicated To the most noble and excellent
>> Lord, the Earle of Leicester, late deceased. [1590]
>>
>> Michael: Probably so (overstated), but an author ca 1590-1600 (at
>> least) stood to gain more than payment from a successful dedication:
>> further employment, political intervention, a place to go when the
>> plague hit, and so on; and publishers stood to gain sales. In his
>> account of the calling in of Mother Hubberds Tale in 1591, Tresham
>> makes a note of the dedication of the work, which seems to him to
>> increase its notoriety and must-have value.
>>
>> az
>>
>>
>> Andrew Zurcher
>> Tutor and Director of Studies in English
>> Queens' College
>> Cambridge CB3 9ET
>> United Kingdom
>> +44 1223 335 572
>>
>> hast hast post hast for lyfe
>>
>>> general, I have agreed with others who have suggested that the
>>> payment function of the epistle dedicatory, though continuously
>>> present through the 17th century, has been overstated in scholarship,
>>> with respect to its occurence and importance to authors and printers.
>>> However, I can't think of
>>
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