Literature and Culture in Early Modern LondonCambridge University Press, 1995 M05 11 - 603 pages In the two hundred years from 1475 London was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city, and a major European trading centre. New possibilities emerged for cultural exchange and combination, social and political order, and literary expression. Integrating literary and historical analysis, and drawing on recent work in literary theory and cultural studies, Literature and Culture in Early Modern London provides a comprehensive account of the changing image and influence of London in lyrics, ballads, jests, epics, satires, plays, pageants, chronicles, treatises, sermons, and official documents. Lawrence Manley shows how the literature and culture of London contributed to the new structures of capitalism, the process of 'behaviour urbanisation', and a paradoxical liberation of the individual through the city's concentrated power. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The city and humanism | 23 |
London and the languages of Tudor complaint | 63 |
London and the languages | 125 |
Spensers epic vision | 168 |
the ceremonies of London | 212 |
pamphlet morals and urban | 297 |
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Maps and Memory in Early Modern England: A Sense of Place Rhonda Lemke Sanford No preview available - 2002 |