1621 and All That. "Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621" by Paul Salzman. [review]
| dc.contributor.author | Campbell, Marion J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-30T05:50:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-08-30T05:50:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A crucial difference between Salzman's work and more conventional literary histories is its privileging of reading over writing: he aims to cover what was readable in 1621, not simply what was written then. His book begins with a map of the mental horizon of a paradigmatic late-Jacobean reader in his account of John Chamberlain, a gentleman, information-gatherer and letter-writer who immersed himself in the news of his own culture and recirculated its currents. He is interested, promiscuously, in feasting and masquing and gossiping; he interprets what he sees and hears, whether it is trivial and playful or serious and political. For Salzman, Chamberlain stands 'as the exemplar of a method that will endeavour to allow nothing to pass unnoted.' It is hard for a reviewer to resist this as a characterisation of Salzman's own book, which is long, learned and enlightening. It adds a great deal to our sense of the detail of this rich period of literary history, even if it leaves the traditional contours of the bigger picture firmly in place. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Australia Council, La Trobe University, National Library of Australia, Holding Redlich, Arts Victoria | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Campbell, Marion J. 2003. 1621 and All That. Review of "Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621" by Paul Salzman. 'Australian Book Review', No 253, August, 55. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0155-2864 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1182 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Australian Book Review | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | No 253 | en |
| dc.subject | Australian | en |
| dc.subject | Book Reviews | en |
| dc.subject | Publishing | en |
| dc.subject.other | Australian Standard Research Classification > 420200 Literature Studies > 420202 Australia and New Zealand | en |
| dc.title | 1621 and All That. "Literary Culture in Jacobean England: Reading 1621" by Paul Salzman. [review] | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |