Title Making space public in early modern Europe : performance, geography, privacy / edited by Angela Vanhaelen and Joseph P. Ward

Published New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture ; 23 Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 23. Contents Cover; Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe-Performance, Geography, Privacy; PART I Performative Spatial Practices; 1 What's Hamlet to Habermas? Spatial Literacy, Theatrical Publication and the Publics of the Early Modern Public Stage; 2 English Coffeehouses and French Salons: Rethinking Habermas, Gender and Sociability in Early Modern French and British Historiography; 3 Viewing the Paper Stage: Civil War, Print, Theater and the Public Sphere 4 Place, Space and Public Formation in the Drama of the Spanish EmpirePART II Spaces Between: Transforming Journeys and Geographies; 5 Assembling the Archipelago: Isolarii and the Horizons of Early Modern Public Making; 6 "Now through You Made Public for Everyone": John Ogilby's Britannia (1675), the 1598 Peutinger Map Facsimile and the Shaping of Public Space; 7 "Exposed to Everyone's Eyes": The Urban Prospect and the Publicity of Representation in Israël Silvestre's Profile of the City of Rome, 1687; 8 Sensing Space and Making Publics 9 Town and Country: The Geography of the English Literary PublicPART III The Potential of the Private; 10 Negotiating the "Forum Politicum" and the "Forum Conscientiae": John Calvin and the Religious Origins of the Modern Public Sphere; 11 Painting the Visible Church: The Calvinist Art of Making Publics; 12 Matrices of Force: Spinozist Monism and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World; 13 The Reformation of Space in Shakespeare's Playhouse; List of Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms of association were social productions of space as well as collective identities. Chapters explore a range of cultural activities such as theatre performances; travel and migration; practi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index Notes Print version record Subject European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism European literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Public spaces in literature. Literature and society -- Europe -- History BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. European literature -- Renaissance Literature and society Public spaces in literature Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Vanhaelen, Angela. Ward, Joseph P., 1965- ISBN 9781135104672 1135104670 0203073681 9780203073681 9781135104627 113510462X 9781135104665 1135104662

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