
The Spectator
Emerging Discourses
Donald J. Newman(Editor)
University of Delaware Press
Published on 1. June 2005
Book
Hardback
313 pages
978-1-61149-274-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers the latest scholarship on this influential series of essays. Taking advantage of the insights provided by such critical perspectives as new historicism, feminism, postcolonialism, psychology, postmodernism, and cultural studies, the scholars represented here take a fresh look at The Spectator and its relation to the changing culture that influenced it-and was influenced by it. A variety of cultural changes in the seventeenth century-political, social, and economic, to name a few of the major ones-destabilized the values and beliefs that organized and cemented the aristocratic/court hegemony of the late seventeenth century. Consequently, a multiplicity of discourses jockeyed for authority to redefine conventional aristocratic notions of morality, religion, politics, economics, class, gender, taste, art, and create new cultural identities and new categories of social status. The essays in this volume examine these discourses as they manifest themselves in The Spectator.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
268 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61149-274-3 (9781611492743)
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Person
Donald J. Newman is associate professor of English at the University of Texas-Pan American.