Writing Cities - Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse Amelang James S.Paperback
Writing Cities - Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse Amelang James S.Paperback Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much…
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Writing Cities - Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse Amelang James S.Paperback
Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures.
But despite its obvious importance, historians have paid surprisingly little attention to urban discourse; its forms, themes, emphases and silences all invite further study.This book explores three dimensions of early modern citizens' writing about their cities: the diverse social backgrounds of the men and women who contributed to urban discourse; their notions of what made for a beautiful city; and their use of dialogue as a literary vehicle particularly apt for expressing city life and culture.Amelang concludes that early modern urban discourse increasingly moves from oral