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The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London : The City and its Double / / by I. Munro



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Autore: Munro Ian <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London : The City and its Double / / by I. Munro Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005
Edizione: 1st ed. 2005.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IX, 255 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/32421
Soggetto topico: European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600
Social history
Civilization - History
Culture - Study and teaching
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature
Social History
Cultural History
Cultural Studies
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover -- The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Crowded Spaces -- 1 Imaginary Numbers: City, Crowd, Theater -- 2 London's Mirror: Civic Ritual and the Crowd -- 3 "Shakespeare's London": the Scene of London in the Second Tetralogy and Henry VIII -- 4 Distracted Multitude: The Theater and The Many-Headed Monster -- 5 "Rome, ETC.": Sejanus, Julius Caesar, and the Prodigious City -- 6 "A Kind of Nothing": Plague Time in Early Modern London -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. The book explores the crowd's double function as a symbol of the city's growth and as the necessary context for the public performance of urban culture. Its central argument is that the figure of the crowd acts as a supplement to the symbolic space of the city, at once providing a tangible referent for urban meaning and threatening the legibility of that meaning through its motive force and uncontrollable energy.
Titolo autorizzato: The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786611364168
9781281364166
1281364169
9781403978738
1403978735
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910970551103321
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Serie: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700, . 2634-5900