Format:
xiv, 234 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781472488053
Content:
The stigma of haste pervaded early modern English culture, more so than the so-called stigma of print. The period’s writers were perpetually short on time, but what does it mean for authors to present themselves as hasty or slow, or to characterize others similarly? This book argues that such classifications were a way to define literary value. To be hasty was, in a sense, to be irresponsible, but, in another sense, it signaled a necessary practicality. Expressions of haste revealed a deep conflict between the ideal of slow writing in classical and humanist rhetoric and the sometimes grim reality of fast printing. Indeed, the history of print is a history of haste, which carries with it a particular set of modern anxieties that are difficult to understand in the absence of an interdisciplinary approach. Many previous studies have concentrated on the period’s competing definitions of time and on the obsession with how to use time well. Other studies have considered time as a notable literary theme. This book is the first to connect ideas of time to writerly 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.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 204 - 228
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A history of haste
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Quality versus quantity: the poetics of slow writing
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"Not published rashly": Henry Peacham's emblems
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"The poetess's hasty resolution": Margaret Cavendish
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The danger of delay: the first booke of the Christian exercise and its afterlife
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Afterword: the digital age of speed
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203733028
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Skouen, Tina The value of time in early modern English literature London : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9780203733028
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Frühneuenglisch
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Literatur
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Eile
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Zeit
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Geschichte 1580-1730
