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Imagining Early Modern London
Author | : J. F. Merritt |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2001-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521773466 |
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An interdisciplinary exploration of Londoners' mental and social world during the long seventeenth century.
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Claire L. Carlin |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2005-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230522619 |
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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.
Green Desire
Author | : Rebecca Weld Bushnell |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501722455 |
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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.
Imagining Early Modern Histories
Author | : Elizabeth Ketner,Allison Kavey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781134803903 |
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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.
After the Flood
Author | : Lydia Barnett |
Publsiher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781421429519 |
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After the Flood illuminates the hidden role and complicated legacy of religion in the emergence of a global environmental consciousness.
Communities in Early Modern England
Author | : Alexandra Shepard,Phil Withington |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 071905477X |
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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.
Producing Early Modern London
Author | : Kelly J. Stage |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781496204875 |
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Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater's use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of "city comedy" or "citizen comedy" have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the "city comedy," comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of London's social space exceeded the strict confines of the "square mile," the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected--a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue--and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity.
Before the Nation
Author | : Susan L Burns |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822331721 |
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DIVShows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of “nation.”/div