Title & Author:

Material London, ca. 1600 / edited by Lena Cowen Orlin.

Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Description:

ix, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

New cultural studies

Notes:
Papers presented at a conference held at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I: Meanings of material London -- London's dominion : the metropolis, the market economy, and the state / David Harris Sacks -- Material London in time and space / Derek Keene -- Poetaster, the author, and the perils of cultural production / Alan Sinfield -- Pt. II: Consumer culture: donmesticating foreign fashion -- England's provinces : did they serve or drive material London? / Joan Thirsk -- Fantastical colors in foggy London : the new fashion potential of the late sixteenth century / Jane Schneider -- "Rugges of London and the Diuell's band" : Irish mantles and yellow starch as hybrid London fashion / Ann Rosalind Jones and Peter Stallybrass -- Women, foreigners, and the regulation of urban space in Westward Ho / Jean E. Howard -- Pt. III: Subjects of the city -- Material Londoners? / Ian W. Archer -- Purgation as the allure of mastery : early modern medicine and the technology of the self / Gail Kern Paster -- London's vagrant economy : making space for "low" subjectivity / Patricia Fumerton -- Pt. IV: Diversions and display -- Inside/out : women, domesticity, and the pleasures of the city / Alice T. Friedman -- Authority of the Globe and the Fortune / Andrew Gurr -- Building, buying, and collecting in London, 1600-1625 / Linda Levy Peck -- Pt. V: Building the city -- Topography and buildings of London, ca. 1600 / John Schofield -- John Day and the bookshop that never was / Peter W.M. Blayney -- Boundary disputes in early modern London / Lena Cowen Orlin.

Summary:

Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career. In Material London ca. 1600, Lena Cowen Orlin and a distinguished group of social, intellectual, urban, architectural, and agrarian historians, archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and literary critics explore the ideas, structures, and practices that distinguished London before the Great Fire, basing their investigations on the material traces in artifacts, playtexts, documents, graphic arts, and archaeological remains.In order to evoke "material London, ca. 1600", each scholar examines a different aspect of one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history. Several chapters give broad panoramic and authoritative views: what architectural forms characterized the built city around 1600; how London's citizens incorporated the new commercialism of their culture into their moral views. Other essays offer sharply focused studies: how Irish mantles were adopted as elite fashions in the hybrid culture of the court; how the city authorities clashed with the church hierarchy over the building of a small bookshop; how London figured in Ben Jonson's exploration of the role of the poet. Although all the authors situate the material world of early modern London -- its objects, products, literatures, built environment, and economics practices -- in its broader political and cultural contexts, provocative debates and exchanges remain both within and between the essays as to what constitutes "materialLondon, ca. 1600".

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0812235401 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812235401 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0812217217 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780812217216 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Material culture England London.
Culture matérielle Angleterre Londres.
Material culture.
Aufsatzsammlung
Materiële cultuur.
Dagelijks leven.
Architecture England London.
London (England) History 16th century.
London (England) History 17th century.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire 16e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire 17e siècle.
England London.
London
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Conference papers (document genres)
History.

Added entries:

Orlin, Lena Cowen.
Folger Shakespeare Library
New cultural studies.

Material London, circa 1600

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211274
Call No.: DA680 .M3 2000
Status: Available