Cultural aesthetics : renaissance literature and the practice of social ornament
A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, Cultural Aesthetics explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patricia Fumerton situates the self within its sumptuous array of "trivial" arts--including the court literatures of chivalric romance, sonnet, and masque and the arts of architecture, miniature painting, stage design, and cuisine. Her integration of historicist and aesthetic perspectives makes this a provocative contribution to the vigorous field of Renaissance cultural studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226269528, 9780226269535, 0226269523, 0226269531
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Introduction: A Still Life: Clock, Jewel, Orange
Exchanging Gifts: The Elizabethan Currency of Children and Romance
Secret Arts: Elizabethan Miniatures and Sonnets
Consuming the Void Jacobean Banquets and Masques
The Veil of Topicality: Trade and Ornament in Neptune's Triumph