Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700 : : Angles of Contingency /

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700 : : Angles of Contingency / / Ingo Berensmeyer.

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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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Berensmeyer, Ingo,
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

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