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

Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700: Angles of Contingency
ISBN-10
311069140X
ISBN-13
9783110691405
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
293
Language
English
Published
2020-06-22
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Author
Ingo Berensmeyer

Description

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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