A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, "Cultural Aesthetics" explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patricia Fumerton situates the self within its sumptuous array of "trivial" arts including the court literatures of chivalric romance, sonnet, and masque and the arts of architecture, miniature painting, stage design, and cuisine. Her integration of historicist and aesthetic perspectives makes this a provocative contribution to the vigorous field of Renaissance cultural...
A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, "Cultural Aesthetics" explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocrat...
Migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England. In fact, by 1650, half of England s rural population consisted of homeless and itinerant laborers. "Unsettled" is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. Patricia Fumerton offers an expansive portrait of unsettledness in early modern England that includes the homeless and housed alike.
Fumerton begins by building on recent studies of vagrancy, poverty, and servants, placing all in the light of a new domestic economy of mobility. She then looks at...
Migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England. In fact, by 1650, half of England s rural populati...
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...
Renaissance Culture and the Everyday Edited by Patricia Fumerton and Simon Hunt "A lively and illuminating collection of essays that extends the recen...
