Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1998

Renaissance Culture and the Everyday

Edited by: Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt

In the series New Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291186

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About this book

In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, scholars illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in such common matters of daily life as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent.

Author / Editor information

Patricia Fumerton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament. Simon Hunt teaches English at the Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California.

Reviews

"A lively and illuminating collection of essays that extends the recent trend away from a concentration on structures of state power and religious authority and toward the domestic, the local, and the ordinary. But the ordinary, in the skillful analyses brought together in this volume, proves to be extraordinarily charged with conflict, strangeness, and dramatic intensity. Fumerton and Hunt have assembled some of the most interesting voices in Renaissance studies today."—Stephen Greenblatt

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1. Introduction: A New New Historicism Patricia Fumerton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Materials of the Everyday
2. The “I” of the Beholder Renaissance Mirrors and the Reflexive Mind Debora Shuger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. “Reasonable Creatures” William Cavendish and the Art of Dressage Karen L. Raber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. “Pox on Your Distinction!” Humanist Reformation and Deformations of the Everyday in The Staple of News Don E. Wayne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5. Homely Accents Ben Jonson Speaking Low Patricia Fumerton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Part II: The Everyday Making of Women
6. Everyday Life, Longevity, and Nuns in Early Modern Florence Judith C. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
7. Constructing the Female Self Architectural Structures in Mary Wroth's Urania Shannon Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
8. The Buck Basket, the Witch, and the Queen of Fairies The Women’s World of Shakespeare's Windsor Richard Helgerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
9. Three Ways to be Invisible in the Renaissance Sex, Reputation, and Stitchery Lena Cowen Orlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
10. Household Chastisements Gender, Authority, and “Domestic Violence” Frances E. Dolan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
Part III: Everyday Transgressions
11. Money and the Regulation of Desire The Prostitute and the Marketplace in Seventeenth-Century Holland Ann Jensen Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
12. Reorganizing Knowledge A Feminist Scholar’s Everyday Relation to the Florentine Past Stephanie H. Jed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
13. “The Catastrophe Is a Nuptial” Love)s Labor’s Lost, Tactics, Everyday Life Richard Corum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
14. “Leaving Out the Insurrection” Carnival Rebellion, English History Plays, and a Hermeneutics of Advocacy Simon Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
15. Graffiti, Grammatology, and the Age of Shakespeare Juliet Fleming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 52 illus.
Keywords: History; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; European History; World History

eBook

Published: June 10, 2014
ISBN: 9780812291186