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Writing Early Modern London

Memory, Text and Community

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Gordon

    1. University of Aberdeen, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Writing Early Modern London

    • Andrew Gordon
    Pages 1-10

  3. Henry Machyn’s Book of Remembrance

    • Andrew Gordon
    Pages 11-59

  4. Contesting Inheritance: William Smith and Isabella Whitney

    • Andrew Gordon
    Pages 60-109

  5. John Stow and the Textuality of Custom

    • Andrew Gordon
    Pages 110-154

  6. Credit History to Civic History: Thomas Middleton and the Politics of Urban Memory

    • Andrew Gordon
    Pages 155-199

  7. Conclusion

    • Andrew Gordon
    Pages 200-204

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 205-264
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About this book

Writing Early Modern London  explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways.

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"...whereas such volumes often offer little more than a collection of essays on a narrow range of canonical or proto-canonical literary works, this book both promises and delivers a great deal more, and should be read by all historians of early modern London or urban culture between the Reformation and the Civil War... This is truly a model of new historicism in action." Jonathan Barry, Urban History

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Aberdeen, UK

    Andrew Gordon

About the author

Andrew Gordon is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on early modern London, manuscript culture and correspondence. He has edited (with Bernhard Klein) Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (2001), and (with Thomas Rist) The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern Britain (2013).

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