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Imagining Early Modern London
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Author : J. F. Merritt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-08-30
Imagining Early Modern London written by J. F. Merritt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-30 with History categories.
The 120 years that separate the first publication of John Stow's famous Survey of London in 1598 from John Strype's enormous new edition of the same work in 1720 witnessed London's transformation into a sprawling augustan metropolis, very different from the compact medieval city so lovingly charted in the pages of Stow. Imagining Early Modern London takes Stow's classic account of the Elizabethan city as a starting point for an examination of how generations of very different Londoners - men and women, antiquaries, merchants, skilled craftsmen, labourers and beggars - experienced and understood the dramatically changing city. A series of interdisciplinary essays explore the ways in which Londoners interpreted and memorialized their past: how individuals located themselves mentally, socially and geographically within the city, and how far the capital's growth was believed to have a moral influence upon its inhabitants.
Imagining Early Modern Histories
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Author : Elizabeth Ketner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Imagining Early Modern Histories written by Elizabeth Ketner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
Imagining Early Modern Histories
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Author : Elizabeth Ketner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Imagining Early Modern Histories written by Elizabeth Ketner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
Green Desire
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Author : Rebecca Weld Bushnell
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Green Desire written by Rebecca Weld Bushnell and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily's hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. Green Desire describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men's and women's roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world—not so different from the dreams of gardeners today.
The Figure Of The Crowd In Early Modern London
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Author : I. Munro
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-04-15
The Figure Of The Crowd In Early Modern London written by I. Munro and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy.
Imagining The Book
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Author : Francis Xavier Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Imagining The Book written by Francis Xavier Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Communities In Early Modern England
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Author : Alexandra Shepard
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000
Communities In Early Modern England written by Alexandra Shepard and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
How were cultural, political, and social identities formed in the early modern period? How were they maintained? What happened when they were contested? What meanings did “community” have? This path-breaking book looks at how individuals were bound into communities by religious, professional, and social networks; the importance of place--ranging from the Parish to communities of crime; and the value of rhetoric in generating community--from the King’s English to the use of “public” as a rhetorical community. The essays offer an original, comparative, and thematic approach to the many ways in which people utilized communication, space, and symbols to constitute communities in early modern England.
Imagining Contagion In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Claire L. Carlin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-10-14
Imagining Contagion In Early Modern Europe written by Claire L. Carlin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-14 with History categories.
The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
The Political World Of Thomas Wentworth Earl Of Strafford 1621 1641
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Author : J. F. Merritt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-11-13
The Political World Of Thomas Wentworth Earl Of Strafford 1621 1641 written by J. F. Merritt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-13 with History categories.
A collection of major articles examining Stuart politics through the career of Thomas Wentworth.
Imagining The Audience In Early Modern Drama 1558 1642
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Author : J. Low
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-25
Imagining The Audience In Early Modern Drama 1558 1642 written by J. Low and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This essay collection builds on the latest research on the topic of theatre audiences in early modern England. In broad terms, the project answers the question, 'How do we define the relationships between performance and audience?'.