Renaissance Culture and the Everyday Edited by Patricia Fumerton
and Simon Hunt "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 It was
not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals
before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender,
for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove
their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own
homes with graffiti. Items and activities as familiar as mirrors,
books, horses, everyday speech, money, laundry baskets, graffiti,
embroidery, and food preparation look decidedly less familiar when
seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In "Renaissance
Culture and the Everyday," such scholars as Judith Brown, Frances
Dolan, Richard Helgerson, Debora Shuger, Don Wayne, and Stephanie
Jed illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in just
such common matters of everyday life during the Renaissance in
England and on the Continent. Organized around the categories of
materiality, women, and transgression--and constantly crossing
these categories--the book promotes and challenges readers'
thinking of the everyday. While not ignoring the aristocratic, it
foregrounds the common person, the marginal, and the domestic even
as it presents the unusual details of their existence. What results
is an expansive, variegated, and sometimes even contradictory
vision in which the strange becomes not alien but a defining mark
of everyday life. 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. New Cultural Studies
1998 344 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 52 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1663-9 Paper
$27.50s 18.00 World Rights History Short copy: Items as familiar as
mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti,
embroidery, and food look decidedly less familiar when seen through
the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In "Renaissance Culture and
the Everyday," such scholars as Judith Brown, Frances Dolan,
Richard Helgerson, Debora Shuger, Don Wayne, and Stephanie Jed
illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in just such
common matters of daily life during the Renaissance in England and
on the Continent.
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