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.)

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.

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