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A New Contribution to Early Modern Memory Studies by Patricia Phillippy (review)
Ist Teil von
Criticism, 2020, Vol.62 (2), p.297-299
Ort / Verlag
Detroit: Wayne State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Here, the initial test case of humanist attitudes towards the perceived properties of amber—"capable of quasimiraculous works, valued for its curative properties, mysteriously endowed with a magnetism … and emitting a sweet smell" (5)—remains highly illuminating and offers an excellent base from which to launch an ambitious investigation into early modern material culture in seventeenth-century England. Detailed accounts of the architectural and monumental spaces of church buildings (notably an enquiry into the reported motivations and actions that characterized the violent transformation of Peterborough cathedral) as well as revealing insights into the commemorative practices identified at the heart of early modern family life (especially that of the Northamptonshire Puritan family of the Montagus) build incrementally to offer the reader a rich and complex panorama of early modern society's theatres of remembrance. [...]Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton constitutes an ambitious, wide-ranging analysis of early modern English practices of commemoration, straddling the disciplines of literary, historical, and architectural study as well as those of the applied arts, and will not fail to excite further enquiries on the part of the reader as it unfolds.