| The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe Contributor(s): Brady, Andrea (Editor), Butterworth, Emily (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041599540X ISBN-13: 9780415995405 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. These essays explore both elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and West. They provide a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, these essays provide new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2009021886 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.10 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke. |