February 18, 2000

Verbatim

By PETER MONAGHAN

Social Authorship and the Advent of Print by Margaret J.M. Ezell (The Johns Hopkins University Press)

Until the late 17th century, the hand-written manuscript was the primary medium in Britain for the circulation of literary texts. The emergence of book publishing changed all that. Surprisingly, writes Margaret J.M. Ezell, an English professor at Texas A&M University, many writers had no desire to see their work in print "or to play our games of authorship." The period also saw the

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