Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700 : : Angles of Contingency / / Ingo Berensmeyer.
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 fu...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 282 p.) |
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Table of 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