Forms of association : making publics in early modern Europe / edited by Paul Yachnin and Marlene Eberhart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yachnin, Paul Edward, 1953- editor.

Eberhart, Marlene, 1964- editor.

Series:

Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.

Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--Europe--History.

Literature and society.

Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations.In this volume of essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to transform early modern European culture.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Writing Publics (Publics and Nation); 1. States, Nations, and Publics: The Politics of Language Reform in Renaissance England; 2. Translating the Law: Sir Edward Coke and the Formation of a Juristic Public; 3. Apocalyptics and Apologetics: Richard Helgerson on Elizabethan England's Religious Identity and the Formation of the Public Sphere; Part II: Forming Social Identities and Publics; 4. Perverse Delights: Cross Channel Trash Talk and Identity Publics; 5. Making Public the Private

6. Public and Private Intercourse in Dutch Genre Scenes: Soldiers and Enigmatic Women / Painters and Enigmatic Paintings7. Sonnets from Carthage, Ballads from Prison: Entertainment and Public Making in Early Modern Spain; Part III: Networks and Publics; 8. Forms of Nationhood and Forms of Publics: Geography and Its Publics in Early Modern England; 9. "The Land Speaks": John Shrimpton's Antiquities of Verulam and St. Albans and the Making of Verulamium; 10. Collectors, Consumers, and the Making of a Seventeenth-Century English Ballad Public: From Networks to Spheres

11. Forms of Internationality: The Album Amicorum and the Popularity of John Owen (1564-1622)Part IV: Theatrical Publicity; 12. The Voice of Caesar's Wounds: The Politics of Martyrdom in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; 13. Shakespeare's Pains to Please; 14. The Political Fortunes of Robin Hood on the Early Modern Stage; Afterword: Richard Helgerson and Making Publics; About the Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-365-4

OCLC:

919384611