The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London : The City and Its Double.
Title:
The Figure of the Crowd in Early Modern London : The City and Its Double.
Author:
Munro, Ian.
ISBN:
9781403978738
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Series:
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
This book examines the cultural phenomenon of the urban crowd in the context of early modern London's population crisis. Munro 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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