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Text/Events in Early Modern England - Poetics of History (Hardcover)
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Text/Events in Early Modern England - Poetics of History (Hardcover)
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Engaging with a range of events-historical moments, theatrical
performances, public presentations, and courtly intrigues - and the
texts that record them, this book explores representational
practice as a component of Elizabethan political culture.
Considering the inscriptive production of mediated, indirect
experience as an authorial challenge to the value of the immediate,
direct experience of events, and conversely, recognizing the
multi-valent impact of theatrical performance and performativity as
a reinvigoration of the immediate, this study traces the emergence
of 'realness' as a textual effect and a mode of political
intervention. This interactive, refractive nexus of experience and
inscription comprises what Sandra Logan calls the 'text/event'. The
four primary foci of this investigation - the 1558 coronation
entry; the 1575 entertainments at Kenilworth; the 1590s
dramatizations of the reign of Richard II; and the Essex trial of
1601 - serve as exempla of four moments in the reign of Elizabeth I
which suggest an increasingly complex interaction between events
and texts developing in the last half of the sixteenth century.
Logan argues that, in representing England's recent and distant
past, a wide range of social subjects engaged in a struggle for
intellectual credibility and social viability, and in the process
generated a contingent public sphere within which history, framed
as a coherent narrative shaped by causal relationships, was brought
to bear on the concerns of the Elizabethan present and future.
Assessing how these chronicles, short prose histories, and
historical dramas each made use of the materials and techniques of
the others, blurring the distinctions between historiography and
poetry, as well as between past and present, Logan considers the
conjunctions between the development of new genres and perceptions
about inscription and experience, and changing socioeconomic
institutions and practices.
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