Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700
Author: Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 311069137X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.