Literary culture in early modern England, 1630 -1700 : angles of contingency / Ingo Berensmeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berensmeyer, Ingo, author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

England.

History.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

Intellectual life.

England--Civilization--17th century.

Civilization.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 282 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2020]

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.

Notes:

"This book is a revised translation of "Angels of Contingency" : literarische Kultur im England des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts, originally published in German by Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2007, as vol. 39 of the Anglia book series"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110691306

3110691302

OCLC:

1140411310