Urban aesthetics in early modern London : the invention of the metaphysical / Christopher D'Addario, Gettysburg College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Addario, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English poetry.

Metaphysics in literature.

English poetry--England--London--History and criticism.

Authors, English--Homes and haunts--England--London.

Authors, English.

London (England)--Intellectual life--16th century.

London (England).

London (England)--Civilization.

Spatial behavior--England--London.

Spatial behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Tracing the demonstrative aesthetic shift in literary writings of fashionable London during the late 1590s, this book argues that the new forms which emerged during this period were intimately linked, arising out of a particular set of geographic, intellectual, and social circumstances that existed in these urban environs. In providing a cohesive view of these disparate generic interventions, Christopher D'Addario breaks new ground in significant ways. By paying attention to the relationship between environment and individual imagination, he provides a fresh and detailed sense of the spaces and social worlds in which the writings of prominent authors, including Thomas Nashe and John Donne, were produced and experienced. In arguing that the rise of the metaphysical aesthetic occurred across a number of urban genres throughout the 1590s, not just in lyric, but also earlier in Nashe's prose, as well as in the verse satire, he rewrites English Renaissance literary history itself.

Contents:

Thomas Nashe and the processing of urban experience

Pierce's heirs: satire at the Inns of Court and in the city

The social quotidian in John Manningham's Diary

Stillness and noise: Donne's Songs and Sonnets in c. 1600 London

The future of the metaphysical.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jun 2023).

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ISBN:

9781009110884 (ebook)

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