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The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)
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The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)
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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. 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 1;
Henry Peacham; Thomas Nash; Robert Greene; Ben Jonson; Margaret
Cavendish; John Dryden; Richard Baxter; Jonathan Swift; 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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