Cultural Aesthetics
Subtitle: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780226269535
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; History; History - General History; English; History: World; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; 16th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; English literature; 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.