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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticlePublication details: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter [Imprint] 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (282 p.)Content type:
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Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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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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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