Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630-1700 : Angles of Contingency
- Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
- 1 electronic resource (282 p.)
Open Access
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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English
9783110691375
10.1515/9783110691375 doi
Literature: history & criticism
English literature contingency neoclassicism politics