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In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts.
Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives,
digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay
between text and food, in which every element of dining, from
preparation to purgation, had its equivalent in the literary
sphere. Following the advice of the poet George Herbert, this essay
collection "looks to the mouth", unfolding the charged relationship
between ingestion and expression in a wide variety of texts and
contexts. With contributions from leading scholars in the field,
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words fills a
significant gap in our understanding of early modern cultural
history. Situated at the lively intersection between literary,
historical and bibliographical studies, it opens new lines of
dialogue between the study of material textuality and the history
of the body.
In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts.
Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives,
digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay
between text and food, in which every element of dining, from
preparation to purgation, had its equivalent in the literary
sphere. Following the advice of the poet George Herbert, this essay
collection "looks to the mouth", unfolding the charged relationship
between ingestion and expression in a wide variety of texts and
contexts. With contributions from leading scholars in the field,
Text, Food and the Early Modern Reader: Eating Words fills a
significant gap in our understanding of early modern cultural
history. Situated at the lively intersection between literary,
historical and bibliographical studies, it opens new lines of
dialogue between the study of material textuality and the history
of the body.
This collection brings together established scholars and new names
in the field of Tudor drama studies. Through a range of traditional
and theoretical approaches, the essays address the neglected early
and mid-Tudor period before the rise of the 'mature' drama of
Marlowe and Shakespeare in the 1590s. New Ideas for research topics
and pedagogical methods are discussed in the essays, which each
provide original arguments about specific texts and/or performances
while also providing an advanced introduction to a concentrated
area of Tudor drama studies. While the continuation of mystery play
performances and morality plays through the first three-quarters of
the sixteenth century have been discussed with some consistency in
the academy, other types of drama (e.g. folk or school plays) have
received short shrift, and critical theory has been slow in coming
to this scholarship. This collection begins to fill in these
deficiencies and suggest fruitful directions for a twenty-first
century revival in pre-Shakespearean Tudor drama studies.
Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his
contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of
the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and
Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence;
his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was
the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed
through his hands, some of which he used to engage in moneylending
and land speculation. He also bought books, lots of them, amassing
one of the largest libraries in early modern London. In 1597, all
of this was brought to a halt when Stonley, aged around
seventy-seven, was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison, convicted of
embezzling the spectacular sum of GBP13,000 from the Exchequer. His
property was sold off, and an inventory was made of his house on
Aldersgate Street. This provides our most detailed guide to his
lost library. By chance, we also have three handwritten volumes of
accounts, in which he earlier itemized his spending on food,
clothing, travel, and books. It is here that we learn that on June
12, 1593, he bought "the Venus & Adhonay per Shakspere"-the
earliest known record of a purchase of Shakespeare's first
publication. In Shakespeare's First Reader, Jason Scott-Warren sets
Stonley's journals and inventories of goods alongside a wealth of
archival evidence to put his life and library back together again.
He shows how Stonley's books were integral to the material worlds
he inhabited and the social networks he formed with communities of
merchants, printers, recusants, and spies. Through a combination of
book history and biography, Shakespeare's First Reader provides a
compelling "bio-bibliography"-the story of how one early modern
gentleman lived in and through his library.
Scott Warren's ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the
ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the
"Emergence of Dialectical Theory, "Warren begins with a careful
analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in
the thought of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He then examines how the
dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical
movements of existentialism, phenomenology, neomarxism, and
critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are
discussed, but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest
dialectical thinkers of the previous century: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
and Jurgen Habermas.
Warren's shrewd critique is indispensable to those interested in
the history of social and political thought and the philosophical
foundations of political theory. His work offers an alternative for
those who find postmodernism to be at a philosophical impasse.
"[This book] is stimulating and thought provoking . . . [Warren]
has the instinct to raise the right questions."--Zoltan Tar,
"Contemporary Sociology"
When we engage with the writings of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries, we encounter a culture radically unfamiliar to us
at the start of the twenty-first century. The past is a foreign
country, and so too are many of its texts. This readable and
provocative book seeks to enhance our understanding of early modern
literature by recovering the contexts in which it was originally
produced and consumed.
Taking us back to the courts, theatres and marketplaces of early
modern England, Jason Scott-Warren reveals the varied ways in which
literary texts dovetailed with everyday experience, unlocking the
distinctive social practices, economic structures and modes of
behaviour that gave them meaning. He shows how the periods most
beguiling writings were conditioned by long-forgotten notions of
knowledge, nationhood, sexuality and personal identity. Bringing an
anthropologists eye to his materials, he offers richly detailed new
readings of works from within and beyond the canon, covering a span
that stretches from Erasmus and More to Milton and Behn.
Resisting any notion of the period as merely transitional a staging
post on the road leading from the medieval to the modern world
Scott-Warren reveals the distinctiveness of its literary culture,
and equips the reader for fresh encounters with its extraordinary
textual legacy. Any undergraduate student of the period will find
it an essential guide, while scholars will find its fresh approach
invigorating.
Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and
News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, provides an
introduction to the political economy of international media
corporations. This text fills a fundamental gap in the critical
media studies field, expanding on the relative paucity of academic
studies. To ground the discussion, Fitzgerald focuses on the growth
of three specific media conglomerates: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and
News Corporation. Adopting an approach rooted in critical political
economy, the book explains the corporations' growth through an
engagement with broader social theories: the wider conditions of
capital accumulation (especially theories of corporate competition
and financialization); issues of institutional logic and corporate
strategies; and the role of states as regulators, mediators of
opposed interests, and facilitators of corporate expansion. The
first section presents debates in social theory, addressing issues
that pertain to cultural industries and dimensions in which they
both challenge and extend these wider social theories. The second
section presents detailed case studies of the three contemporary
media 'mega companies' across the range of operations they
coordinate, both within and outside the cultural industries. By
analyzing the specifics and complexities of different media
industries, Corporations and Cultural Industries examines how
financialization processes re-gear the internal operations of media
corporations in a manner that pits one sector against another. This
book provides an in-depth study that can be used as stand-alone
teaching resources or as a valuable supplement to a variety of
media courses.
Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and
News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, provides an
introduction to the political economy of international media
corporations. This text fills a fundamental gap in the critical
media studies field, expanding on the relative paucity of academic
studies. To ground the discussion, Fitzgerald focuses on the growth
of three specific media conglomerates: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and
News Corporation. Adopting an approach rooted in critical political
economy, the book explains the corporations' growth through an
engagement with broader social theories: the wider conditions of
capital accumulation (especially theories of corporate competition
and financialization); issues of institutional logic and corporate
strategies; and the role of states as regulators, mediators of
opposed interests, and facilitators of corporate expansion. The
first section presents debates in social theory, addressing issues
that pertain to cultural industries and dimensions in which they
both challenge and extend these wider social theories. The second
section presents detailed case studies of the three contemporary
media 'mega companies' across the range of operations they
coordinate, both within and outside the cultural industries. By
analyzing the specifics and complexities of different media
industries, Corporations and Cultural Industries examines how
financialization processes re-gear the internal operations of media
corporations in a manner that pits one sector against another. This
book provides an in-depth study that can be used as stand-alone
teaching resources or as a valuable supplement to a variety of
media courses.
This book offers an innovative reassessment of one of the most colourful denizens of the English Renaissance court, Sir John Harington (1560-1612). Based upon a wealth of new evidence, it shows how Harington used his writings to play the patronage system, reconstructing his complex and often devious designs.
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