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Seventeenth-century England (seventeenth-century + england)

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Selected Abstracts

Rethinking Women and Property in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 6 2006
Pamela Hammons
If one were to consider male-authored literary works alone , with no reference to historical documents or women's writing , one would probably be left with a distorted picture of women's status in relation to property. However, work in three main areas , legal history, material culture, and women's writing , in the last fifteen years has improved our understanding of women and property considerably. For example, revisions of legal history have highlighted differences between Renaissance women's everyday practices in relation to property and what the law theoretically required, and materialist work on women's connections to cloth production and theatrical properties ascribes significant agency to them. While analyses of women's diaries, letters, and wills have illuminated their thoughts and behavior in relation to property, we can still learn more from women's imaginative writing, especially their poetry. [source]

Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England , By Linda Levy Peck

THE HISTORIAN, Issue 1 2007
Robert Bucholz
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Material progress and the challenge of affluence in seventeenth-century England

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2009
PAUL SLACK
In the later seventeenth century, material progress was first identified in England as a recent achievement with boundless future promise, and it was welcomed despite fears about the threats that it was perceived to present to national and personal well-being. The article investigates the roots of that confidence, and finds them in political economy and other intellectual developments that shaped interpretations of changing standards of living. The civic and moral ,challenge of affluence' was fully recognized but never resolved. Progress was accepted, and had to be defended in war-time, as the route to general happiness, ,ease', and plenty. [source]

Measuring the national wealth in seventeenth-century England

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2004
PAUL SLACK
This article discusses William Petty's 1665 estimate of the wealth of England and Wales,the first set of national accounts,and compares it with Gregory King's (1696), which is shown to be heavily influenced by it. There are conclusions about the methodology of the first political arithmeticians, the kinds of national resources which could be measured for the first time in the seventeenth century, and the lacunae which made it likely that Petty and King underestimated per caput and aggregate incomes. An appendix prints a contemporary analysis of hearth tax returns for every county. [source]

The cost of apparel in seventeenth-century England, and the accuracy of Gregory King

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 4 2000
Margaret Spufford
First page of article [source]

Historical Figuration: Poetics, Historiography, and New Genre Studies1

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 5 2006
W. Scott Howard
This essay has four interconnected goals: 1) to reflect upon some of the major theoretical and methodological developments (since about 1950) in the fields of early modern literary studies and history vis-à-vis the question of historicism; 2) to address, within the context of seventeenth-century England, inter-relationships between poetics and historiography; 3) to examine that "interdisciplinarity" specifically in terms of the seventeenth-century English poetic elegy; and 4) to trace (from Plato to Puttenham) and to argue for a specific theoretical aspect of that inter-relationship, which I will call historical figuration. My argument will hinge upon these connecting points, especially the latter two. On the one hand, I will argue that an early modern paradigm shift from theocentric to increasingly secular narrative frameworks for personal and national histories contributes to a transformation in poetic genre. English poets began to formulate a new intra-textual crisis of linguistic signification within the elegy's construction of loss and spiritual consolation as the experience of death and mourning became less theocentric and communal and more secular and individualized during the seventeenth century. This new intra-textuality to elegiac resistance emerges gradually but consistently from approximately the 1620s onward, facilitating the genre's new articulations of consolation situated within and against historical contexts rather than projected toward a transcendental horizon. On the other hand, I will also argue that this distinctive inter-relationship between poetics and historiography may be theorized as historical figuration, which may be linked directly to key contributions to the history of poetic theory from Plato to Puttenham. My two-fold thesis thus attempts to engender and engage what some may see as a trans-discursive poetics of culture. However, I would hesitate to place my argument within the new-historicist camp, but would hope instead that this essay may contribute to the emerging, interdisciplinary sub-field of new genre studies, which seeks to examine literary genres as manifestations of aesthetic forms and social discourses. [source]