Writing Early Modern London : Memory, Text and Community / by A. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Andrew, 1969-

Series:

Early Modern Literature in History, 2634-5927

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.

Contents:

Introduction: Writing early modern London

Henry Machyn's Book of remembrance

Contesting inheritance: William Smith and Isabella Whitney

John Stow and the textuality of custom

Credit history to civic history: Thomas Middleton and the politics of urban memory.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349451678

1349451673

9781137294920

1137294922