Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England.Summers, Claude J., and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds. Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press The University of Missouri Press, founded in 1958, is a university press that is part of the University of Missouri System. External link
, 2001. ix + 243 pp. index. $39.95. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-8262-1317-0. Noting that previous work on literary circles has been "frustratingly vague or suspiciously flexible and shifting" about the "exact dimensions and specific functions of literary circles," the editors have put together a volume of twelve essays to explore the ways actual and imaginary literary circles are conceived and the needs they fulfill. A variety of topics is explored: "theoretical issues relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc literary circles"; "the extent to which literary circles are themselves fictional or historical constructs"; "how particular groups and communities actually operated"; and "the varied effects of specific networks on individual writers" among others. Two essays focus on women's communities: those of Amelia Lanyer and Margaret Fell Margaret Fell or Margaret Fox (1614 - April 23, 1702) was one of the founding members of the Religious Society of Friends, and was popularly known as the "mother of Quakerism". She is considered one of the Valiant Sixty, early Quaker preachers and missionaries. . All essays were originally presented, in abbreviated form, at the thirteenth biennial Renaissance conference at the University of Michigan-Dearborn The University of Michigan-Dearborn, located in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, is part of the University of Michigan system. It was established in 1959 after a gift of 196 acres (793,000 m²) from the Ford Motor Company. , October 15-17, 1998. Essays include: Summer, Claude J. and Pebworth, Ted-Larry, "Introduction"; Hester, M. Thomas, "'Like a spyed Sp ie': Donne's Baiting of Marlowe"; Seelig, Sharon Cadman, "'To all vertuous Ladies in generall': Aemelia Lanyer's Community of Strong Women"; Considine, John, "The Invention of the Literary Circle of Sir Thomas Overbury"; Evans, Robert C., "'This Art Will Live': Social and Literary Responses to Ben Jonson's New Inn"; Raylor, Timothy, "Newcastle's Ghosts: Robert Payne, Ben Jonson, and the 'Cavendish Circle'"; Parrish, Paul A., "Reading Poets Reading Poets: Herbert and Crashaw's Literary Ellipse ellipse, closed plane curve consisting of all points for which the sum of the distances between a point on the curve and two fixed points (foci) is the same. It is the conic section formed by a plane cutting all the elements of the cone in the same nappe. "; Nardo, Anna K., "A Space for Academic Recreation: Milton's Proposal in The Reason of Church-government"; Revard, Stella P., "Thomas Stanley and 'A Register of Friends'"; Stanwood, Paul G., "Community and Social Order in the Great Tew Circle"; Donnelly, M.L., "'The Great Difference of Time': The Great Tew Circle and the Emergence of the Neoclassical ne·o·clas·si·cism also Ne·o·clas·si·cism n. A revival of classical aesthetics and forms, especially: a. A revival in literature in the late 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, Mode"; Guibbory, Achsah, "Conversation, Conversion, Messianic Redemption: Margaret Fell, Menasseh hen Israel, and the Jews." |
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