Literature and culture in early modern London
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, to the process of "behavioral urbanization," and to a paradoxical liberation of the individual through the city's concentrated power
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1995
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 603 pages ; 24 cm
9780521461610, 0521461618
29635364
The city and humanism
London and the language of Tudor complaint
From matron to monster: London and the languages of description
The emergence of a Tudor capital: Spenser's epic vision
Scripts for the pageant: the ceremonies of London
"To be a man in print": pamphlet morals and urban culture
Essential difference: the projects of satire
The uses of enchantment: Jacobean city comedy and romance
Metropolis: the creation of an august style
In place of place: London and liberty in the Puritan Revolution