Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

Literature and Culture in Early Modern London
Author: Lawrence Manley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1995-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521461610

The literature of early modern London, and its contribution to the development of metropolitan culture.

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Author: Kristine Steenbergh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108495397

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Author: Christopher Ivic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2004-07-31
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134388322

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory." This volume recovers the crucial role of forgetting in producing early modernity's subjective and collective identities, desires and fantasies.

Writing Early Modern London

Writing Early Modern London
Author: A. Gordon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137294922

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.

St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture

St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Author: Roze Hentschell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192588591

Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the period - both fictional and historical - reveals a great interest in the space, and show it to be complex and contested, with multiple functions and uses beyond its status as a church. St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices animates the cathedral space by focusing on the every day functions of the building, deepening and sometimes complicating previous works on St Paul's. St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a study of London's cathedral, its immediate surroundings, and its everyday users in early modern literary and historical documents and images, with special emphasis on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It discusses representations of several of the seemingly discrete spaces of the precinct to reveal how these spaces overlap with and inform one another spatially, and argues that specific locations should be seen as mutually constitutive and in a dynamic and ever-evolving state. The varied uses of the precinct, including the embodied spatial practices of early modern Londoners and visitors, are examined, including the walkers in the nave, sermon-goers, those who shopped for books, the residents of the precinct, the choristers, and those who were devoted to church repairs and renovations.

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England

Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Author: Juliet Cummins
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754657811

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in early modern England. Analyzing the contributions of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the development of modern Western thought.

Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England

Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Author: Anne M. Myers
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421408007

Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrounded the production of early modern texts in England. Scholars have long found themselves in the position of excusing or explaining England’s failure to achieve the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance in the visual arts. Myers proposes that architecture inspired an unusual amount of historiographic and literary production, including poetry, drama, architectural treatises, and diaries. Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect.

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2004-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521832700

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were 'translated' from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England. No biblical book was more often or more diversely translated than the Psalms during the period. In church psalters, sophisticated metrical paraphrases, poetic adaptations, meditations, sermons, commentaries, and through biblical allusions in secular poems, plays, and prose fiction, English men and women interpreted the Psalms, refashioning them according to their own personal, religious, political, or aesthetic agendas. The book focuses on literature from major writers like Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings, emblems, works of theology and political polemic.

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Author: Andrea Brady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135191956

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke.

Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture

Diplomacy and Early Modern Culture
Author: R. Adams
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230298125

Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival texts, objects and contexts contributes a new analysis of the spaces, activities and practices of the Renaissance embassy.