Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern British and European Cultures (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802090303 ISBN 13: 9780802090300

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2006

Synopsis

Repetition dynamically shaped important modes of thought and action in early modern British and European cultures. The centrality and often problematic ambiguity of repetition as they converge in ritual, routine, and regime, however, are rarely assessed accurately because repetition is often dismissed as quaintly primitive or embarrassingly visceral.

Ritual, Routine, and Regime is a collection of essays that reveals varied meanings given to and created by repetition from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The contributors reveal repetition at work in evolving definitions of the self and of the emotions, in political rhetoric used to assert a nation's history, in values ascribed to musical styles, in religious verse grounded in practices of prayer, in the aesthetics created by the poetry of work and by rhyme in general, in the recreation of British classics through French translations, and in the repeated but significantly varied sculpture of the portrait bust.

Edited by Lorna Clymer, Ritual, Routine, and Regime juxtaposes early modern practices with twentieth- and twenty-first century theoretical accounts of the institutions of repetition. Providing a stimulating, new perspective on early modern culture, the collection describes repetition's often peculiar demands, its surprising gratifications, and its contested interpretations.

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About the Author

Lorna Clymer is a professor in the Department of ENglish at California State University, Bakersfield.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802090303
• ISBN 13: 9780802090300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Clymer Lorna