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

Ingo Berensmeyer

book: Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700

Angles of Contingency

Ingo Berensmeyer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110691375

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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 fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.　

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Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

Reviews

[...] Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630-1700: Angles of Contingency is an
illuminating and at its best beautifully written study that exposes the complex ways in
which literature took part in the circulation of multiple and contingent perspectives on
cultural, political and philosophical phenomena in the 17th century." Roland Weidle in: Anglistik 2/2021, 156-158.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Preface to the Revised Edition Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Open Access Download PDF	IX
List of Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	IX
“Seeking the Noise in the Depth of Silence”: A Naval Prelude with Spectators, 1665 Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Historicising Literary Culture: Communication, Contingency, Contexture Open Access Download PDF	13
2. Literary Cabinets of Wonder: The ‘Paper Kingdomes’ of Robert Burton and Sir Thomas Browne Open Access Download PDF	28
3. Writing, Reading, Seeing: Visuality and Contingency in the Literary Epistemology of Neoclassicism Open Access Download PDF	70
4. Literature as Civil War Open Access Download PDF	117
5. Private Selves and Public Lives: Neoclassical Perspectives Open Access Download PDF	179
The Augustan Angle: Civilised Contingency and Normative Discourse Open Access Download PDF	214
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	225
Index Open Access Download PDF	249

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 282
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
Keywords: English literature; contingency; neoclassicism; politics

eBook

Published: June 22, 2020
ISBN: 9783110691375

Hardcover

Published: June 22, 2020
ISBN: 9783110691306

Paperback

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110995176