Writing Early Modern London [electronic resource] : Memory, Text and Community /
Gordon, A.author.
Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Writing early modern London -- Henry Machyn's Book of remembrance -- Contesting inheritance: William Smith and Isabella Whitney -- John Stow and the textuality of custom -- Credit history to civic history: Thomas Middleton and the politics of urban memory.
Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.