Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament

By Patricia Fumerton

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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.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226269531

ISBN13:9780226269535

Release Date:December 1993

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:287 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

16th Century History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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