Bart van Es
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199249701
- eISBN:
- 9780191719332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249701.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter discusses that the book tried to place Edmund Spenser in the context of different and coexisting conceptions of the past, particularly those influenced by religious, nationalistic, and ...
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This chapter discusses that the book tried to place Edmund Spenser in the context of different and coexisting conceptions of the past, particularly those influenced by religious, nationalistic, and scholarly perspectives on history. It investigates Early Modern England's absorption, use, and critical awareness of diverse modes of historical narrative, and argues for the significance of these modes in determining the writer's or reader's outlook on distant events. It illustrates the ways in which the poet engaged with the languages of history surrounding him. It concludes that the poet has a profound, playful, and above all, multiform sense of the past for he was deeply knowledgeable about the historical writing of his day—using it extensively across the full range of his literary production.Less
This chapter discusses that the book tried to place Edmund Spenser in the context of different and coexisting conceptions of the past, particularly those influenced by religious, nationalistic, and scholarly perspectives on history. It investigates Early Modern England's absorption, use, and critical awareness of diverse modes of historical narrative, and argues for the significance of these modes in determining the writer's or reader's outlook on distant events. It illustrates the ways in which the poet engaged with the languages of history surrounding him. It concludes that the poet has a profound, playful, and above all, multiform sense of the past for he was deeply knowledgeable about the historical writing of his day—using it extensively across the full range of his literary production.
Amina Elbendary
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789774167171
- eISBN:
- 9781617976773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774167171.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter focuses on the popularization of literature and historiography and the development of the bourgeois trend during the Mamluk period. It first considers the factors behind the ...
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This chapter focuses on the popularization of literature and historiography and the development of the bourgeois trend during the Mamluk period. It first considers the factors behind the popularization of culture and cultural production in the Mamluk sultanate before discussing the collective experiences of urban dwellers and their cultural manifestations, along with the link between social mobility and the bourgeois trend. It then examines changes in Mamluk culture, the rise of new types of patronage and new audiences for popular poetry, the spread of literacy, the emergence of middling classes and of new audiences for written literature, and the increased importance of Sufism. It also describes various manifestations of popularization in written cultural and literary production and compares the Egyptian and Syrian schools of medieval historiography. Finally, it looks at the so-called “civic interest” that connects many of the late Mamluk and early Ottoman historical writings.Less
This chapter focuses on the popularization of literature and historiography and the development of the bourgeois trend during the Mamluk period. It first considers the factors behind the popularization of culture and cultural production in the Mamluk sultanate before discussing the collective experiences of urban dwellers and their cultural manifestations, along with the link between social mobility and the bourgeois trend. It then examines changes in Mamluk culture, the rise of new types of patronage and new audiences for popular poetry, the spread of literacy, the emergence of middling classes and of new audiences for written literature, and the increased importance of Sufism. It also describes various manifestations of popularization in written cultural and literary production and compares the Egyptian and Syrian schools of medieval historiography. Finally, it looks at the so-called “civic interest” that connects many of the late Mamluk and early Ottoman historical writings.
Helen Fronius
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199210923
- eISBN:
- 9780191705793
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199210923.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature, European Literature
German literature during the era of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1770-1820) was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading, and scorned as writers; Friedrich Schiller saw female writers as ...
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German literature during the era of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1770-1820) was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading, and scorned as writers; Friedrich Schiller saw female writers as typical ‘dilettantes’. But the attempt to exclude did not always succeed, and the growing literary market rewarded some women's determination. This interdisciplinary study takes as its starting point the presence (rather than absence) of women writers in German cultural life, combining archival research, literary analysis, and statistical evidence to give a sociological-historical overview of the conditions of women's literary production. Highlighting many authors who have fallen into obscurity, and examining women as authors, correspondents, and readers, this study tells the story of women who managed to write and publish at a time when their efforts were not welcomed in Germany. Although 18th-century gender ideology is an important pre-condition for women's literary production, it does not necessarily determine the praxis of their actual experiences, as this study makes clear. Using a range of examples from a variety of sources, the real story of women who read, wrote, and published in the shadow of Goethe emerges.Less
German literature during the era of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1770-1820) was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading, and scorned as writers; Friedrich Schiller saw female writers as typical ‘dilettantes’. But the attempt to exclude did not always succeed, and the growing literary market rewarded some women's determination. This interdisciplinary study takes as its starting point the presence (rather than absence) of women writers in German cultural life, combining archival research, literary analysis, and statistical evidence to give a sociological-historical overview of the conditions of women's literary production. Highlighting many authors who have fallen into obscurity, and examining women as authors, correspondents, and readers, this study tells the story of women who managed to write and publish at a time when their efforts were not welcomed in Germany. Although 18th-century gender ideology is an important pre-condition for women's literary production, it does not necessarily determine the praxis of their actual experiences, as this study makes clear. Using a range of examples from a variety of sources, the real story of women who read, wrote, and published in the shadow of Goethe emerges.
John Watkins
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501707575
- eISBN:
- 9781501708527
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501707575.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the ...
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The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. This book traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy. The book begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. It follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. The book argues that the plays of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.Less
The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. This book traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy. The book begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. It follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. The book argues that the plays of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.
Matt Erlin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453045
- eISBN:
- 9780801470431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453045.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book examines the field of literary production and the culture of consumption in Germany between 1770 and 1815 in relation to luxury and the fine arts. Drawing on recent work done in German and ...
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This book examines the field of literary production and the culture of consumption in Germany between 1770 and 1815 in relation to luxury and the fine arts. Drawing on recent work done in German and British studies on both consumer culture in a narrower sense and the interface between literature and political economy more generally, the book analyzes the discursive and material contexts that shape the novel during the period. It offers a new perspective on the broader trajectory of German literature by exploring how deeply preoccupied artists and especially authors are with their status as luxury producers. It also discusses the structural and rhetorical features of literary works by reading the novels of Joachim Heinrich Campe, Christoph Martin Wieland, Karl Philipp Moritz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Novalis.Less
This book examines the field of literary production and the culture of consumption in Germany between 1770 and 1815 in relation to luxury and the fine arts. Drawing on recent work done in German and British studies on both consumer culture in a narrower sense and the interface between literature and political economy more generally, the book analyzes the discursive and material contexts that shape the novel during the period. It offers a new perspective on the broader trajectory of German literature by exploring how deeply preoccupied artists and especially authors are with their status as luxury producers. It also discusses the structural and rhetorical features of literary works by reading the novels of Joachim Heinrich Campe, Christoph Martin Wieland, Karl Philipp Moritz, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Novalis.
Ewa Płonowska Ziarek
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231161497
- eISBN:
- 9780231530903
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231161497.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
This chapter situates the transformative capacity of literature—its ability to contest gender domination, imperialism, and the gendered division of labor—in relation to women's political aspirations ...
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This chapter situates the transformative capacity of literature—its ability to contest gender domination, imperialism, and the gendered division of labor—in relation to women's political aspirations to freedom. Conversely, this class, gender, and racist domination also threatens the very possibility of art even before its inception. In fact, Woolf's imaginary history of women's literary production begins with the utter destruction of women's art and their bodies—a destruction internalized as madness, melancholia, and resentment. It is only by bearing witness to both the destruction of women's artistic capacities and women's revolutionary aspirations for political and economic freedom that feminist aesthetics can inaugurate new possibilities of writing and passionate relations between women.Less
This chapter situates the transformative capacity of literature—its ability to contest gender domination, imperialism, and the gendered division of labor—in relation to women's political aspirations to freedom. Conversely, this class, gender, and racist domination also threatens the very possibility of art even before its inception. In fact, Woolf's imaginary history of women's literary production begins with the utter destruction of women's art and their bodies—a destruction internalized as madness, melancholia, and resentment. It is only by bearing witness to both the destruction of women's artistic capacities and women's revolutionary aspirations for political and economic freedom that feminist aesthetics can inaugurate new possibilities of writing and passionate relations between women.
Gaurav Desai
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231164542
- eISBN:
- 9780231535595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231164542.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter first considers Franz Fanon's account of the workings of colonialism. He refers to the colonial world as a “Manichean world” where the settler does not only delimit physically the place ...
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This chapter first considers Franz Fanon's account of the workings of colonialism. He refers to the colonial world as a “Manichean world” where the settler does not only delimit physically the place of the native, but paints the native as a sort of quintessence of evil. This vision resonated with the experiences of a number of colonized intellectuals and writers who, in the Africa of the fifties and early sixties, fought against the oppressive restrictions of colonial society in the hopes of creating a socially just, independent future. Of the many literary critics that Fanon inspired, perhaps the most influential was Abdul Jan Mohamed, whose 1983 study Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa sought to articulate a sociopolitical theory of literary production that took into account the binary divisions of the colonial world that Fanon had previously laid out. The remainder of the chapter traces the genealogy of Asian-African creative production in the twentieth century, accounting for some of the silences and self-censorship undertaken by the community.Less
This chapter first considers Franz Fanon's account of the workings of colonialism. He refers to the colonial world as a “Manichean world” where the settler does not only delimit physically the place of the native, but paints the native as a sort of quintessence of evil. This vision resonated with the experiences of a number of colonized intellectuals and writers who, in the Africa of the fifties and early sixties, fought against the oppressive restrictions of colonial society in the hopes of creating a socially just, independent future. Of the many literary critics that Fanon inspired, perhaps the most influential was Abdul Jan Mohamed, whose 1983 study Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa sought to articulate a sociopolitical theory of literary production that took into account the binary divisions of the colonial world that Fanon had previously laid out. The remainder of the chapter traces the genealogy of Asian-African creative production in the twentieth century, accounting for some of the silences and self-censorship undertaken by the community.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226899008
- eISBN:
- 9780226899022
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226899022.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
Throughout his works, Jerome makes constant reference to his reliance on stenographers to take dictation as he composes. In a few texts he reports that his assistants also read to him. These modes of ...
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Throughout his works, Jerome makes constant reference to his reliance on stenographers to take dictation as he composes. In a few texts he reports that his assistants also read to him. These modes of literacy have complex associations within Jerome's own texts. In the context of his broader social milieu, they mark his mode of literary production as elite, even aristocratic. His command of skilled assistants implied that he had the resources to pay them, or at least to support them. His emphasis on their presence drew attention to the similarities between the way he wrote and the habits that elite authors had developed over centuries.Less
Throughout his works, Jerome makes constant reference to his reliance on stenographers to take dictation as he composes. In a few texts he reports that his assistants also read to him. These modes of literacy have complex associations within Jerome's own texts. In the context of his broader social milieu, they mark his mode of literary production as elite, even aristocratic. His command of skilled assistants implied that he had the resources to pay them, or at least to support them. His emphasis on their presence drew attention to the similarities between the way he wrote and the habits that elite authors had developed over centuries.
Susan David Bernstein
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748640652
- eISBN:
- 9780748684366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640652.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter sets out the book's two central arguments: first, it shows that the British Museum Round Reading Room facilitated various practices of women's literary production and tradition; second, ...
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This chapter sets out the book's two central arguments: first, it shows that the British Museum Round Reading Room facilitated various practices of women's literary production and tradition; second, it questions the overdetermined value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of female authorship. Rather than viewing reading and writing as solitary events, the book considers the public and social dimensions of literary production. Drawing on archival materials around this national library reading room the book also integrates historical, theoretical, literary, and documentary sources to examine the significance of this space for women writers and their treatment of reading and writing spaces, and more broadly the meaning of communal spaces.Less
This chapter sets out the book's two central arguments: first, it shows that the British Museum Round Reading Room facilitated various practices of women's literary production and tradition; second, it questions the overdetermined value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of female authorship. Rather than viewing reading and writing as solitary events, the book considers the public and social dimensions of literary production. Drawing on archival materials around this national library reading room the book also integrates historical, theoretical, literary, and documentary sources to examine the significance of this space for women writers and their treatment of reading and writing spaces, and more broadly the meaning of communal spaces.
Serena Haygood Blount
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032561
- eISBN:
- 9781617032578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032561.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines William Faulkner’s early experiments with texts and textuality in his play The Marionettes as a training ground for an aesthetic intensely concerned with “meditations on ...
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This chapter examines William Faulkner’s early experiments with texts and textuality in his play The Marionettes as a training ground for an aesthetic intensely concerned with “meditations on language and literary production.” It analyzes the dynamics of the characters, Pierrot and Shade of Pierrot, Marietta and the Marionettes, as well as the complex and contradictory relationship between these figures. The chapter shows how Faulkner makes visible their emptiness and status as characters in language. It also considers Faulkner’s use of calligraphy and illustration, which turns him into a mime of Aubrey Beardsley, and explains how the returns of the text signify the inscriptions and reinscriptions of character.Less
This chapter examines William Faulkner’s early experiments with texts and textuality in his play The Marionettes as a training ground for an aesthetic intensely concerned with “meditations on language and literary production.” It analyzes the dynamics of the characters, Pierrot and Shade of Pierrot, Marietta and the Marionettes, as well as the complex and contradictory relationship between these figures. The chapter shows how Faulkner makes visible their emptiness and status as characters in language. It also considers Faulkner’s use of calligraphy and illustration, which turns him into a mime of Aubrey Beardsley, and explains how the returns of the text signify the inscriptions and reinscriptions of character.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226616681
- eISBN:
- 9780226616704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226616704.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This introductory chapter first discusses how, in the early nineteenth century in Britain, the new science of geology was publicized in spectacular and theatrical forms that enabled it to gain the ...
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This introductory chapter first discusses how, in the early nineteenth century in Britain, the new science of geology was publicized in spectacular and theatrical forms that enabled it to gain the cultural authority it enjoys today. Performance was central to the public face of earth science. Its adherents pulled off an imaginative coup by giving their public tantalizing glimpses of an earth history far longer and stranger than the story of a literal six-day Creation which had held sway over much of that public at the turn of the century. This was no easy task. The new narrative had to compete not only with the Book of Genesis, but also with centuries of sacred-historical tradition, of which John Milton's epic poem of Creation and Fall, Paradise Lost (1667), was only the most prestigious expression. Rather than assaulting this potent body of narrative head-on, proponents of the new science turned it to their own ends, “justify[ing] the ways of God to men” by forging a new Creation-myth for an imperial age. Popularization took many forms, including lectures, exhibitions, and even custom-built geological museums. But it was in their literary productions—in books, journals, magazines, and newspapers—that these geologists and their followers reached most of their increasingly variegated public. This book aims to show how the truth-claims of public science have been supported by (and expressed within) structures that we are used to thinking of as fundamentally opposed to scientific procedure. By examining science as literature, rather than science and literature, it hopes to complicate some of the oppositions to which the latter duality has given rise.Less
This introductory chapter first discusses how, in the early nineteenth century in Britain, the new science of geology was publicized in spectacular and theatrical forms that enabled it to gain the cultural authority it enjoys today. Performance was central to the public face of earth science. Its adherents pulled off an imaginative coup by giving their public tantalizing glimpses of an earth history far longer and stranger than the story of a literal six-day Creation which had held sway over much of that public at the turn of the century. This was no easy task. The new narrative had to compete not only with the Book of Genesis, but also with centuries of sacred-historical tradition, of which John Milton's epic poem of Creation and Fall, Paradise Lost (1667), was only the most prestigious expression. Rather than assaulting this potent body of narrative head-on, proponents of the new science turned it to their own ends, “justify[ing] the ways of God to men” by forging a new Creation-myth for an imperial age. Popularization took many forms, including lectures, exhibitions, and even custom-built geological museums. But it was in their literary productions—in books, journals, magazines, and newspapers—that these geologists and their followers reached most of their increasingly variegated public. This book aims to show how the truth-claims of public science have been supported by (and expressed within) structures that we are used to thinking of as fundamentally opposed to scientific procedure. By examining science as literature, rather than science and literature, it hopes to complicate some of the oppositions to which the latter duality has given rise.
Günter Leypoldt
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635740
- eISBN:
- 9780748651658
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635740.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter reviews the American-Renaissance construction, which lost a lot of its credibility during the 1960s and 1970s, looking at the post-Kantian Whitmanian moment, and describing Whitman's ...
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This chapter reviews the American-Renaissance construction, which lost a lot of its credibility during the 1960s and 1970s, looking at the post-Kantian Whitmanian moment, and describing Whitman's image of the American poetry. It suggests that reductionism can be solved if one views literary production as a kind of imaginary world-making that cuts across strict world–art oppositions, such as socio-political expressiveness versus stylistic artistry.Less
This chapter reviews the American-Renaissance construction, which lost a lot of its credibility during the 1960s and 1970s, looking at the post-Kantian Whitmanian moment, and describing Whitman's image of the American poetry. It suggests that reductionism can be solved if one views literary production as a kind of imaginary world-making that cuts across strict world–art oppositions, such as socio-political expressiveness versus stylistic artistry.
Julie Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198712619
- eISBN:
- 9780191780936
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198712619.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Mediatrix is about four interrelated communities in which politically influential women, or “mediatrixes,” played central roles, and the literary work they produced. The first focuses on Mary Sidney ...
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Mediatrix is about four interrelated communities in which politically influential women, or “mediatrixes,” played central roles, and the literary work they produced. The first focuses on Mary Sidney Herbert, the Sidney circle and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia; the second on Margaret Hoby’s community of readers in recusant Yorkshire and the godly texts this reading kept alive; the third on the circle surrounding Lucy Harrington Russell, Countess of Bedford, and John Donne’s verse letters, occasional poems and Holy Sonnets; and the fourth on Mary Wroth, the Sidney-Herbert alliance, and The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. While many of these women are familiar figures in feminist literary history, Mediatrix looks at their contributions less in terms of their gender or seemingly discrete roles as writers, patrons, or readers, than in terms of their religious and political affiliations and commitments. The four communities were related to each other not only by birth and marriage, but by their engagement with the cause loosely identified as militant Protestantism, invested in a limited monarchy, and advanced in no small part by what has been called “practically active” humanism, particularly the production and circulation of literary texts. By looking at the work these communities produced, as well as the places in and the means by which they did so, I argue not only that women played a central role in the production of some of England’s most important literary texts, but that the work they produced was an essential part of the political, as well as the literary, culture of early modern England.Less
Mediatrix is about four interrelated communities in which politically influential women, or “mediatrixes,” played central roles, and the literary work they produced. The first focuses on Mary Sidney Herbert, the Sidney circle and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia; the second on Margaret Hoby’s community of readers in recusant Yorkshire and the godly texts this reading kept alive; the third on the circle surrounding Lucy Harrington Russell, Countess of Bedford, and John Donne’s verse letters, occasional poems and Holy Sonnets; and the fourth on Mary Wroth, the Sidney-Herbert alliance, and The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. While many of these women are familiar figures in feminist literary history, Mediatrix looks at their contributions less in terms of their gender or seemingly discrete roles as writers, patrons, or readers, than in terms of their religious and political affiliations and commitments. The four communities were related to each other not only by birth and marriage, but by their engagement with the cause loosely identified as militant Protestantism, invested in a limited monarchy, and advanced in no small part by what has been called “practically active” humanism, particularly the production and circulation of literary texts. By looking at the work these communities produced, as well as the places in and the means by which they did so, I argue not only that women played a central role in the production of some of England’s most important literary texts, but that the work they produced was an essential part of the political, as well as the literary, culture of early modern England.
Graham Law
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199560615
- eISBN:
- 9780191803499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199560615.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines changes in both the profession of authorship and the publishing trade in Britain the nineteenth century. It charts the tension between conflicting concepts of authorship and ...
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This chapter examines changes in both the profession of authorship and the publishing trade in Britain the nineteenth century. It charts the tension between conflicting concepts of authorship and developments in intellectual property and literary journalism under three headings: ‘Novelists and literary property’, concerning copyright in theory and practice; ‘Novelists as journalists’, on the interface between periodical publication and literary production; and, finally, ‘The novel of the author’, regarding the incorporation of themes and scenes of authorship and publishing into works of fiction themselves.Less
This chapter examines changes in both the profession of authorship and the publishing trade in Britain the nineteenth century. It charts the tension between conflicting concepts of authorship and developments in intellectual property and literary journalism under three headings: ‘Novelists and literary property’, concerning copyright in theory and practice; ‘Novelists as journalists’, on the interface between periodical publication and literary production; and, finally, ‘The novel of the author’, regarding the incorporation of themes and scenes of authorship and publishing into works of fiction themselves.
John Watkins
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501707575
- eISBN:
- 9781501708527
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501707575.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This book examines the role of marriage in the formation, maintenance, and disintegration of a premodern European diplomatic society. The argument develops in dialogue with the so-called English ...
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This book examines the role of marriage in the formation, maintenance, and disintegration of a premodern European diplomatic society. The argument develops in dialogue with the so-called English school of international relations theory, with its emphasis on the contemporary international system as a society of states sharing certain values, norms, and common interests rather than as an anarchy driven solely by power struggles. In studying the place of marriage diplomacy in questions of monarchical and national sovereignty, the book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies that have long characterized academic studies of queenship and, more recently, European diplomatic culture. It begins with Virgil, whose epic tells the story of Aeneas's marriage to Lavinia—the paradigmatic interdynastic marriage. It also considers the inseparability of marriage diplomacy from literary production. Finally, it discusses the factors that precipitated the disintegration of marriage diplomacy, including new technologies of print and the large public theaters for promoting diplomatic literacy.Less
This book examines the role of marriage in the formation, maintenance, and disintegration of a premodern European diplomatic society. The argument develops in dialogue with the so-called English school of international relations theory, with its emphasis on the contemporary international system as a society of states sharing certain values, norms, and common interests rather than as an anarchy driven solely by power struggles. In studying the place of marriage diplomacy in questions of monarchical and national sovereignty, the book draws on interdisciplinary methodologies that have long characterized academic studies of queenship and, more recently, European diplomatic culture. It begins with Virgil, whose epic tells the story of Aeneas's marriage to Lavinia—the paradigmatic interdynastic marriage. It also considers the inseparability of marriage diplomacy from literary production. Finally, it discusses the factors that precipitated the disintegration of marriage diplomacy, including new technologies of print and the large public theaters for promoting diplomatic literacy.
Gordana P. Crnković
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784023
- eISBN:
- 9780804787345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784023.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
While political elites and new governments continue to assert the distinctiveness of the Yugoslav successor states and the nonconnection with a shared Yugoslav past, the art created in the region in ...
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While political elites and new governments continue to assert the distinctiveness of the Yugoslav successor states and the nonconnection with a shared Yugoslav past, the art created in the region in the last two decades seems to frequently make, assume, and even emphasize these connections. This chapter offers a brief sample catalog of such works and the ways in which they enact the above connections, including references to Yugoslav-era works (of the other independent states) in post-Yugoslav literary and cinematic production, and the common interstate connections in post-Yugoslav cinema production. The chapter also points to one feature discernible in select contemporary literature and cinema that could be identified as an aspect rooted in the region’s connection with its Yugoslav past. Finally, the author mentions some of the most literal instances of bringing back, retrieving, and reactivating the Yugoslav intellectual and artistic past into the present.Less
While political elites and new governments continue to assert the distinctiveness of the Yugoslav successor states and the nonconnection with a shared Yugoslav past, the art created in the region in the last two decades seems to frequently make, assume, and even emphasize these connections. This chapter offers a brief sample catalog of such works and the ways in which they enact the above connections, including references to Yugoslav-era works (of the other independent states) in post-Yugoslav literary and cinematic production, and the common interstate connections in post-Yugoslav cinema production. The chapter also points to one feature discernible in select contemporary literature and cinema that could be identified as an aspect rooted in the region’s connection with its Yugoslav past. Finally, the author mentions some of the most literal instances of bringing back, retrieving, and reactivating the Yugoslav intellectual and artistic past into the present.
Alan D. Hodder
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300089592
- eISBN:
- 9780300129755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300089592.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter focuses on Thoreau's journals, the first nearly complete edition of which was published in 1906. The earliest journals, especially those kept from the fall of 1837 till about the end of ...
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This chapter focuses on Thoreau's journals, the first nearly complete edition of which was published in 1906. The earliest journals, especially those kept from the fall of 1837 till about the end of 1839, seem to have functioned as a sort of showcase or commonplace book for reading notes, poems, and a series of fairly polished mini-essays, often headed with brief titles, on a wide array of topics. Beginning, however, around May of 1850, the journal no longer functioned primarily as a staging area for other writings but as a principal mode of literary production in and of itself.Less
This chapter focuses on Thoreau's journals, the first nearly complete edition of which was published in 1906. The earliest journals, especially those kept from the fall of 1837 till about the end of 1839, seem to have functioned as a sort of showcase or commonplace book for reading notes, poems, and a series of fairly polished mini-essays, often headed with brief titles, on a wide array of topics. Beginning, however, around May of 1850, the journal no longer functioned primarily as a staging area for other writings but as a principal mode of literary production in and of itself.
Angus Vine
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198809708
- eISBN:
- 9780191847134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198809708.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This concluding chapter explores the geographical scope and extent of the textual culture described in previous chapters. Revisiting a number of the individuals discussed earlier in the book ...
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This concluding chapter explores the geographical scope and extent of the textual culture described in previous chapters. Revisiting a number of the individuals discussed earlier in the book (including Hill, Oxinden, and Owen of Henllys), it shows that miscellany culture flourished in the provinces and regions as well as in the more familiar sites of literary and scholarly production. In fact, it is shown that it emerged in some of its most striking and innovative ways in places that were a considerable distance geographically (as well as often intellectually) from more typical literary locations such as Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court in London. In parallel, the chapter also shows that this kind of textual culture had an unexpected longevity, extending well into the eighteenth century, as examples including John Locke and Thomas Gray show.Less
This concluding chapter explores the geographical scope and extent of the textual culture described in previous chapters. Revisiting a number of the individuals discussed earlier in the book (including Hill, Oxinden, and Owen of Henllys), it shows that miscellany culture flourished in the provinces and regions as well as in the more familiar sites of literary and scholarly production. In fact, it is shown that it emerged in some of its most striking and innovative ways in places that were a considerable distance geographically (as well as often intellectually) from more typical literary locations such as Oxford, Cambridge, and the Inns of Court in London. In parallel, the chapter also shows that this kind of textual culture had an unexpected longevity, extending well into the eighteenth century, as examples including John Locke and Thomas Gray show.
Maria Aparecida de Oliveira
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781942954088
- eISBN:
- 9781786944122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781942954088.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This paper aims at investigating how Woolf influenced Ocampo’s literary production; it might be through Ocampo’s Testemonies or in her journal Sur. It also our aim to analyse how Ocampo divulged ...
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This paper aims at investigating how Woolf influenced Ocampo’s literary production; it might be through Ocampo’s Testemonies or in her journal Sur. It also our aim to analyse how Ocampo divulged Virginia Woolf’s writings in all Spanish-speaking countries through translations, lectures, publications and especially through her passion in talking about Woolf. Through Ocampo’s gaze, Woolf’s image and writing was understood in a different way, which goes beyond the European’s boundaries. This relationship has contributed tremendously for both of them, as women writers and intellectuals of their time. Ocampo’s progress as a writer had a dramatic impact after meeting Woolf. Above all, Ocampo contributed immensely for spreading Woolf’s writings.Less
This paper aims at investigating how Woolf influenced Ocampo’s literary production; it might be through Ocampo’s Testemonies or in her journal Sur. It also our aim to analyse how Ocampo divulged Virginia Woolf’s writings in all Spanish-speaking countries through translations, lectures, publications and especially through her passion in talking about Woolf. Through Ocampo’s gaze, Woolf’s image and writing was understood in a different way, which goes beyond the European’s boundaries. This relationship has contributed tremendously for both of them, as women writers and intellectuals of their time. Ocampo’s progress as a writer had a dramatic impact after meeting Woolf. Above all, Ocampo contributed immensely for spreading Woolf’s writings.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226550350
- eISBN:
- 9780226550374
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226550374.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines African American literature in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. It analyzes the overlooked works of Julian Mayfield and Chester Himes and provides new insights into the ...
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This chapter examines African American literature in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. It analyzes the overlooked works of Julian Mayfield and Chester Himes and provides new insights into the crises confronting the more canonized members of the black literati during this period. The chapter suggests that popular literary production of African American writers was designed to decenter the dominant understanding of the period and its cultural meaning for black America, and that that anti-institutional character of ghetto-centric writing contradicted efforts toward integration.Less
This chapter examines African American literature in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. It analyzes the overlooked works of Julian Mayfield and Chester Himes and provides new insights into the crises confronting the more canonized members of the black literati during this period. The chapter suggests that popular literary production of African American writers was designed to decenter the dominant understanding of the period and its cultural meaning for black America, and that that anti-institutional character of ghetto-centric writing contradicted efforts toward integration.
