The cultural geography of early modern drama, 1620-1650 / Julie Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Julie, 1968-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Landscapes in literature.

Space in literature.

Setting (Literature).

Masques, English--History and criticism.

Masques, English.

Theater--England--History--17th century.

Theater.

Cultural landscapes.

History.

England.

Cultural landscapes--England--History.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

"Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geography within an early modern historical context. Different kinds of drama and performance are analysed: from commercial drama by key playwrights to household masques and entertainment performed by families and in semi-official contexts. Sanders provides a fresh look at works from the careers of Ben Jonson, John Milton and Richard Brome, paying attention to geographical spaces and habitats like forests, coastlines and arctic landscapes of ice and snow, as well as the more familiar locales of early modern country estates and city streets and spaces. Overall, the book encourages readers to think about geography as kinetic, embodied and physical, not least in its literary configurations, presenting a key contribution to early modern scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period 18

2 Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest 65

3 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household 101

4 Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation 133

5 Neighbourhoods and networks 178

6 Writing the city: emergent spaces 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: entering the bear pit: cultural geography and early modern drama; 1. Liquid landscapes: water, culture, and society in the Caroline period; 2. Into the woods: spatial and social geographies in the forest; 3. 'Hospitable fabrics': thinking through the early modern household; 4. Moving through the landscape: mobility and sites of social circulation; 5. Neighbourhoods and networks; 6. Writing the city: emergent spaces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781107003347

1107003342

OCLC:

705350760

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