The value of time in early modern English literature /
This book is the first to connect ideas of time to writer haste in a richly interdisciplinary manner, drawing upon rhetorical theory, book history, poetics, religious studies and early modern moral philosophy, which, only when taken together, provide a genuinely deep understanding of why the stigma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Summary: | This book is the first to connect ideas of time to writer haste in a richly interdisciplinary manner, drawing upon rhetorical theory, book history, poetics, religious studies and early modern moral philosophy, which, only when taken together, provide a genuinely deep understanding of why the stigma of haste so preoccupied the early modern mind. The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature surveys the period from ca 1580 to ca 1730, with special emphasis on the seventeenth century. The material discussed is found in emblem books, devotional literature, philosophical works, and collections of poetry, drama and romance. Among classical sources, Horace and Quintilian are especially important. The main authors considered are Robert Parsons, Edmund Bunny, King James I, Henry Peacham, Thomas Nash, Robert Greene, Ben Jonson, Margaret Cavendish, John Dryden, Richard Baxter, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. By studying these writers' expressions of time and haste, we may gain a better understanding of how authorship was defined at a time when the book industry was gradually taking the place of classical rhetoric in regulating writers' activities. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472488053 1472488059 |