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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827288003321

Titolo

Ritual, routine and regime : repetition in early modern British and European cultures / / editor, Lorna Clymer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-281-99173-2

9786611991739

1-4426-7940-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : illustrations

Collana

UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Disciplina

001.3/09/032

Soggetti

Repetition (Aesthetics)

Repetition (Philosophy)

Repetition in literature

Repetition in music

Humanities - Europe - History - 17th century

Humanities - Europe - History - 18th century

History

Electronic books.

Somerset (England) History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cycles of repetition: chacona, ciaccona, chaconne, and the chaconne / Susan McClary -- Repetition and narration: tracking the Enlightenment self / Leo Damrosch -- Escape from repetition: Blake versus Locke and Wordsworth / Laura Quinney -- Emerging emotion theory: forgiveness and repetition / Paul Newberry -- Acts of remembrance, acts of oblivion: rhetoric, law and national memory in Early Restoration England / Paulina Kewes -- Christopher Smart's late religious lyrics: building churches in the air / Chris Mounsey -- 'The year runs round': the poetry of work in eighteenth-century England / David Fairer -- Seven reasons for rhyme / J. Paul Hunter -- Translation as original



composition: reading the work of Pierre Le Tourneur / Julie Candler Hayes -- Multiple heads: Pope, the portrait bust, and patterns of repetition / Malcolm Baker.

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a stimulating, new perspective on early modern culture, the collection describes repetition's often peculiar demands, its surprising gratifications, and its contested interpretations.