Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social OrnamentA 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. |
Contents
Introduction A Still Life Clock Jewel Orange | 1 |
The Paradigm | 3 |
Culture as Fragment | 11 |
From the Fragmentary to the Peripheral and Ornamental | 18 |
Cultural Aesthetics | 24 |
Exchanging Gifts The Elizabethan Currency of Children and Romance | 29 |
The Ring of Gift | 31 |
The Ring of Elizabeth | 36 |
Sidneys Ground of Poetry | 90 |
After Hilliard and Sidney Within the louelimnd tablet of mine heart | 104 |
Consuming the Void Jacobean Banquets and Masques | 111 |
Rooms Apart of Sweet Conceits Toward an Aesthetics of Detachment | 113 |
The Void of Self | 128 |
Jamess Banqueting House and the Masque | 136 |
The Annunciation of Self | 143 |
Tearing Down the Masque Toward an Aesthetics of Consumerism | 159 |
The Threat of the Irish | 44 |
Spensers Garden of Adonis | 50 |
The Dedication | 59 |
Toward the Interior Cosmos | 62 |
Secret Arts Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets | 67 |
Publishing the Miniature In small volumes in private manner | 70 |
Hilliards Secret Art of Limning | 77 |
Publishing the Sonnet Such Secret thoughts as fit not euery sight | 85 |
The Veil of Topicality Trade and Ornament in Neptunes Triumph | 169 |
Foreign Currency and the East India Company | 173 |
Ormuz | 187 |
Neptunes Triumph for the Return of Albion | 195 |
The Veil of Topicality | 201 |
Notes | 207 |
Index | 261 |
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Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament Patricia Fumerton No preview available - 1992 |
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References to this book
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass Limited preview - 2000 |
The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text Ann Bermingham,John Brewer No preview available - 1995 |