Literature and Culture in Early Modern London

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Cambridge University Press, 11.05.1995 - 603 Seiten
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.

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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
the projects of satire
372
Jacobean city comedy
431
the creation of an august style
481
the social mode
516
London and liberty in the Puritan
531
Index
583
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