Cultural Aesthetics
Subtitle: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780226269528
Subjects: English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Sociology; History: World; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; English; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; 16th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Literature And Society; Manners and customs in literat; Manners and customs in literature
First sentence: This book is about the fragmentary, the peripheral, and the ornamental-what may be called, in terms specific to the culture I am dealing with, the trivial.