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The Antiquarian Mode: English Literature and the Tropics of Antiquarianism, 1600-1660459 views
Author
Lemley, Samuel, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia0000-0002-6712-5663
Advisors
Fowler, Elizabeth, AS-English-Eng Lit Ops, University of Virginia
Kinney, James, AS-English-Eng Lit Ops, University of Virginia
Rush, Rebecca, AS-English-Eng Lit Ops, University of Virginia
Barbour, Reid, English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Abstract
A seventeenth-century antiquary’s instruments included the five senses and methods of study well known to archaeology, but early modern antiquaries also called on writerly and visual tools, including synecdoche, facsimile, aphorism, description, and etymology. In spite of its literary qualities, however, early modern antiquarianism has failed to attract the attention of literary scholars. While historians of science, scholars in the history of ideas, and cultural historians have all discerned antiquarianism’s innovations in method, few have marked its richly interpenetrative relation to the seventeenth century’s innovations in poetry and prose—few have attended to antiquarianism’s literariness. The Antiquarian Mode: English Literature & The Tropics of Antiquarianism, 1600-1660 offers a corrective, proposing that seventeenth-century antiquarian writing constitutes a discrete mode of literature overdue for restoration and definitive study.
Degree
PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Keywords
antiquarianism; early modern; Francis Bacon; William Camden; Thomas Browne; fragment; symptom; synecdoche; facsimile
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Lemley, Samuel. The Antiquarian Mode: English Literature and the Tropics of Antiquarianism, 1600-1660. University of Virginia, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2020-04-30, https://doi.org/10.18130/v3-abjb-yd14.
