Material London, ca. 1600 Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin Between 1500
and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest
city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from
1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of
Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical
career. In "Material London, ca. 1600," Lena Cowen Orlin and a
distinguished group of social, intellectual, urban, architectural,
and agrarian historians, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists,
and literary critics explore the ideas, structures, and practices
that distinguished London before the Great Fire, basing their
investigations on the material traces in artifacts, playtexts,
documents, graphic arts, and archaeological remains. In order to
evoke "material London, ca. 1600," each scholar examines a
different aspect of one of the great world cities at a critical
moment in Western history. Several chapters give broad panoramic
and authoritative views: what architectural forms characterized the
built city around 1600; how the public theatre established its
claim on the city; how London's citizens incorporated the new
commercialism of their culture into their moral views. Other essays
offer sharply focused studies: how Irish mantles were adopted as
elite fashions in the hybrid culture of the court; how the city
authorities clashed with the church hierarchy over the building of
a small bookshop; how London figured in Ben Jonson's exploration of
the role of the poet. Although all the authors situate the material
world of early modern London--its objects, products, literatures,
built environment, and economic practices--in its broader political
and cultural contexts, provocative debates and exchanges remain
both within and between the essays as to what constitutes "material
London, ca. 1600." Lena Cowen Orlin is Research Professor of
English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and
Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. She
is the author of "Private Matters and Public Culture in
Post-Reformation England" and "Elizabethan Households: An
Anthology." New Cultural Studies 2000 400 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 52
illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1721-6 Paper $34.95s 23.00 World Rights
History, Cultural Studies Short copy: "Material London, ca. 1600"
reconstructs one of the great world cities at a critical moment in
Western history.
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