Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700 : Angles of Contingency / Ingo Berensmeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berensmeyer, Ingo, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature, contingency, neoclassicism, politics.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

England.

England--Civilization--17th century.

Local Subjects:

English literature, contingency, neoclassicism, politics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the Revised Edition

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

“Seeking the Noise in the Depth of Silence”: A Naval Prelude with Spectators, 1665

1. Historicising Literary Culture: Communication, Contingency, Contexture

2. Literary Cabinets of Wonder: The ‘Paper Kingdomes’ of Robert Burton and Sir Thomas Browne

3. Writing, Reading, Seeing: Visuality and Contingency in the Literary Epistemology of Neoclassicism

4. Literature as Civil War

5. Private Selves and Public Lives: Neoclassical Perspectives

The Augustan Angle: Civilised Contingency and Normative Discourse

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9783110691375

311069137X

OCLC:

1163878244