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Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament

Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament

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British History

ISBN10: 0226269531
ISBN13: 9780226269535
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Dec 15 1993
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.89 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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 studies.

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