Title Urban aesthetics in early modern London : the invention of the metaphysical / Christopher D'Addario, Gettysburg College

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) Contents Introduction -- Thomas Nashe and the processing of urban experience -- Pierce's heirs: satire at the Inns of Court and in the city -- The social quotidian in John Manningham's Diary -- Stillness and noise: Donne's Songs and Sonnets in c. 1600 London -- Epilogue: The future of the metaphysical Summary "Tracing the demonstrative aesthetic shift in literary writings of fashionable London during the late 1590s, this book argues that the new forms which emerged during this period were intimately linked, arising out of a particular set of geographic, intellectual, and social circumstances that existed in these urban environs. In providing a cohesive view of these disparate generic interventions, Christopher D'Addario breaks new ground in significant ways. By paying attention to the relationship between environment and individual imagination, he provides a fresh and detailed sense of the spaces and social worlds in which the writings of prominent authors, including Thomas Nashe and John Donne, were produced and experienced. In arguing that the rise of the metaphysical aesthetic occurred across a number of urban genres throughout the 1590s, not just in lyric, but also earlier in Nashe's prose, as well as in the verse satire, he rewrites English Renaissance literary history itself"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Christopher D'Addario, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania Print version record Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Metaphysics in literature. English poetry -- England -- London -- History and criticism Authors, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London Spatial behavior -- England -- London Authors, English -- Homes and haunts Civilization English poetry English poetry -- Early modern Intellectual life Metaphysics in literature Spatial behavior SUBJECT London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078214 London (England) -- Civilization Subject England -- London Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009110884 1009110888 9781009121187 1009121189

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