WRITING EARLY MODERN LONDON IBD

Sinopse

What does it mean to write the city? How could the myriad experiences of life in early modern London be translated into textual form? In a detailed study of works ranging from little known manuscript accounts to major canonical texts from the pen of Thomas Middleton and Isabella Whitney, WritingáEarly Modern Londonápursues these questions. Arguing that the impulse to record and reflect upon the early modern city was fuelled by the process of religious reformation, it traces the profound impact of these upheavals upon how community was experienced and imagined. The authors studied here show how rites of community were appropriated and re-imagined in texts which responded creatively to the transformation of urban life. Contesting LondonâÇÖs future involved contesting the past, and WritingáEarly Modern Londonádemonstrates how memory became a key cultural battleground, one in which writing itself was implicated, as a far-reaching âÇÖreformation of the archiveâÇÖ challenged the habits of memory within early modern culture.