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Material London, ca. 1600.
Title:
Material London, ca. 1600.
Author:
Orlin, Lena Cowen.
ISBN:
9780812208399
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (404 pages)
Series:
New Cultural Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Meanings of Material London -- 2. London's Dominion: The Metropolis, the Market Economy, and the State -- 3. Material London in Time and Space -- 4. Poetaster, the Author, and the Perils of Cultural Production -- Part II. Consumer Culture: Domesticating Foreign Fashion -- 5. England's Provinces: Did They Serve or Drive Material London? -- 6. Fantastical Colors in Foggy London: The New Fashion Potential of the Late Sixteenth Century -- 7. "Rugges of London and the Diuell's Band": Irish Mantles and Yellow Starch as Hybrid London Fashion -- 8. Women, Foreigners, and the Regulation of Urban Space in Westward Ho -- Part III. Subjects of the City -- 9. Material Londoners? -- 10. Purgation as the Allure of Mastery: Early Modern Medicine and the Technology of the Self -- 11. London's Vagrant Economy: Making Space for "Low" Subjectivity -- Part IV. Diversions and Display -- 12. Inside/Out: Women, Domesticity, and the Pleasures of the City -- 13. The Authority of the Globe and the Fortune -- 14. Building, Buying, and Collecting in London, 1600-1625 -- Part V. Building the City -- 15. The Topography and Buildings ofLondon, ca. 1600 -- 16. John Day and the Bookshop That Never Was -- 17. Boundary Disputes in Early Modern London -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Abstract:
Material London, ca. 1600 reconstructs one of the great world cities at a critical moment in Western history.
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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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