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

• VerfasserIn: Berensmeyer, Ingo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 282 p.)
• Other title: 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
• ISBN: 9783110691375; 311069137X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.