The Circulation Of Knowledge In Early Modern English Literature

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317038160

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With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were being developed for the cultural elite. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature examines the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. This volume thus alternates theoretical analyses with more specific readings in order to investigate the multiple ways in which ideas then circulated. It also addresses the ways in which the dominant cultural forms of the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s age were being subverted. In this regard, its various contributors analyze how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgression operated at the core of early modern English culture, and how Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, or lesser known poets and playwrights such as Thomas Howell, Thomas Edwards and George Villiers, managed to appropriate these cultural processes in their works.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1315614723

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Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317038177

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The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature by Sophie Chiari Pdf

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were being developed for the cultural elite. The Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern English Literature examines the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century England by emphasizing deviant practices that questioned, reassessed or even challenged pre-established cultural norms and traditions. This volume thus alternates theoretical analyses with more specific readings in order to investigate the multiple ways in which ideas then circulated. It also addresses the ways in which the dominant cultural forms of the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s age were being subverted. In this regard, its various contributors analyze how the interrelated processes of initiation, transmission and transgression operated at the core of early modern English culture, and how Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton, or lesser known poets and playwrights such as Thomas Howell, Thomas Edwards and George Villiers, managed to appropriate these cultural processes in their works.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429684203

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Freedom and Censorship in Early Modern English Literature by Sophie Chiari Pdf

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct English literature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In early modern England, the Privy Council, the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Stationers’ Company, and the Master of the Revels each dealt with their own prerogatives and implemented different forms of censorship, with the result that authors penning both plays and satires had to juggle with various authorities and unequal degrees of freedom from one sector to the other. Text and press control thus did not give way to systematic intervention but to particular responses adapted to specific texts in a specific time. If the restrictions imposed by regulation practices are duly acknowledged in this edited collection, the different contributors are also keen to enhance the positive impact of censorship on early modern literature. The most difficult task consists in finding the exact moment when the balance tips in favour of creativity, and the zone where, in matters of artistic freedom, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. This is what the twelve chapters of the volume proceed to do. Thanks to a wide variety of examples, they show that, in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, regulations seldom prevented writers to make themselves heard, albeit through indirect channels. By contrast, in the 1630s, the increased supremacy of the Church seemed to tip the balance the other way.

Author : David Loewenstein,Janel M. Mueller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521631564

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The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature by David Loewenstein,Janel M. Mueller Pdf

Now available in paperback, this is the first full-scale history of early modern English literature in nearly a century. It offers new perspectives on English literature produced in Britain between the Reformation and the Restoration. While providing the general coverage and specific information expected of a major history, its twenty-six chapters address recent methodological and interpretive developments in English literary studies. The book has five sections: Modes and Means of Literary Production, Circulation, and Reception , The Tudor Era from the Reformation to Elizabeth I , The Era of Elizabeth and James VI , The Earlier Stuart Era , and The Civil War and Commonwealth Era . While England is the principal focus, literary production in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is treated, as are other subjects less frequently examined in previous histories, including women s writings and the literature of the English Reformation and Revolution. This innovatively-designed history is an essential resource for specialists and students.

Author : Jason Scott-Warren
Publisher : Polity
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745627519

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Early Modern English Literature by Jason Scott-Warren Pdf

Providing comprehensive background material on the contexts in which early modern literary texts were produced and consumed, this work unlocks the distinctive social practices, economic structures and modes of behaviour that give these texts their meaning.

Author : Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson,David Olafsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317607823

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Minor Knowledge and Microhistory by Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson,David Olafsson Pdf

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated and consumed some centuries after the advent of print as its research material, the book's focus is on its day-to-day usage and on "minor knowledge," i.e., text matter originating and rooted primarily in the everyday life of the peasantry. The focus is on the history of education and communication in a global perspective. Rather than engaging in comparing different countries or regions, the authors seek to view and study early modern and modern manuscript culture as a transnational (or transregional) practice, giving agency to its ordinary participants and attention to hitherto overlooked source material. Through a microhistorical lens, the authors examine the strength of this aspect of popular culture and try to show it in a wider perspective, as well as asking questions about the importance of this development for the continuity of the literary tradition. The book is an attempt to explain “the nature of the literary culture” in general – how new ideas were transported from one person to another, from community to community, and between regions; essentially, the role of minor knowledge in the development of modern men.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004251410

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The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China by Anonim Pdf

In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge circulated, first in Europe, but then beyond to India and China. It engages the knowledge and encounters of those Europeans as they moved across the globe. It participates in the attempt to open up more nuanced and balanced trajectories of colonial and post-colonial encounters. By focusing on exchange, translation, and resistance, the authors bring into the spotlight many "bit-players" and things originally relegated to the margins in the development of late modern science. Contributors include Karen Smith, Larry Stewart, Savrithri Preetha Nair, Jan Golinski, Arun Bala, Jonathan Topham, Khyati Nagar, Yang Haiyan, Fa-ti Fan, Grace Yen Shen, Jahnavi Phalkey, Veena Rao, and Sundar Sarukkai.

Author : András Kiséry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191063244

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Hamlet's Moment by András Kiséry Pdf

Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation. Drama turned from open, military conflict to diplomacy and court policy, from the public contestation of power to the technologies of government. Tragedies of state turned into tragedies of state servants, inviting the public to consider politics as a profession-to imagine what it meant to have a political career. By staging intelligence derived from diplomatic sources, and by inflecting the action and discourse of their plays with a Machiavellian style of political analysis, playwrights such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman, and Marston transformed political knowledge into a more broadly useful type of cultural capital, something even people without political agency could deploy in conversation and use in claiming social distinction. In Hamlet's moment, the public stage created the political competence that enabled the rise of the modern public sphere.

Author : Jan-Peer Hartmann,Andrew James Johnston
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814214746

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Material Remains by Jan-Peer Hartmann,Andrew James Johnston Pdf

Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.

Author : Neil Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198704102

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Common by Neil Rhodes Pdf

A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the 'common'.

Author : Lisa Voigt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807831991

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Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic by Lisa Voigt Pdf

Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The pr

Author : Jennifer Andersen,Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204711

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Books and Readers in Early Modern England by Jennifer Andersen,Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.

Author : Leah Knight,Micheline White,Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472131099

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Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain by Leah Knight,Micheline White,Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women’s reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field. In thirteen probing essays, Women’s Bookscapesin Early Modern Britain brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British women’s figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of women’s readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of women’s libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers? The volume’s three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidence—lists of confiscated books and convent rules, for example—as well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship. Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collection’s fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; women’s literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally.

Author : Matthew McLean,Sara K. Barker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004316638

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International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World by Matthew McLean,Sara K. Barker Pdf

International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It explores commercial networks and business strategies, and the translation and circulation of literature, music and drama.