The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367891336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Tina Skouen

Opis

This book is the first to connect ideas of time to writerly haste in an interdisciplinary manner, drawing upon rhetorical theory, book history, poetics, religious studies and early modern moral philosophy, which provide a genuinely deep understanding of why the stigma of haste so preoccupied the early modern mind.

Spis treści

Ch 1: A History of Haste

Ch 2: Quality versus Quantity: The Poetics of Slow Writing

Ch 3: "Not Published Rashly": Henry Peacham’s Emblems

Ch 4: "The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution": Margaret Cavendish

Ch 5: The Danger of Delay: The First Booke of the Christian Exercise and Its Afterlife

Afterword: The Digital Age of Speed

O autorze

Tina Skouen is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her publications include "The Vocal Wit of John Dryden" (2006), "The Rhetoric of Passion in Donne’s Holy Sonnets" (2009), "Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667) Reconsidered" (2011) and "Margaret Cavendish and The Stigma of Haste" (2014). She is co-editor (with Ryan J. Stark) of Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society: A Sourcebook (2015).