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Representing the Commons in Early Modern England

Jeremy ELPRIN,Mickaël POPELARD
Collection
Symposia
Date de publication
11 mars 2025
Résumé
Ours is an age of extremely fragmented experiences and identities – a fragmentation paralleled by a growing awareness that we all inhabit a common world. In reality, these two phenomena have a lot more in common than one might suspect: deeply engrained individualism and the destruction of ecosystems are two sides of the same capitalist coin. Thus, the question of "the commons" becomes more relevant than ever.This book aims to fill a gap in the recent theoretical discussion of the commons by rethinking the notion from the perspective of early modern English literature and culture. It argues that the commons needs to be shown and represented, not just theorised or discussed in abstract terms. By focusing on some of the foundational, textually embodied forms through which ... Lire la suite
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Date de première publication du titre 11 mars 2025
ISBN 9782381852607
EAN-13 9782381852607
Référence 127768-45
Nombre de pages de contenu principal 156
Format 16 x 24 x 2 cm
Poids 300 g

Jeremy Elprin and Mickaël Popelard :  Introduction
Empowering the Common

Chapter 1
Laurent Curelly : What Does "Common" Mean? British Civil War Radical Sects and the Commons. The Case of the Levellers, the Diggers and the Ranters

Chapter 2
Z'hor Zizi : Gerrard Winstanley and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland: The Earth a "Common Treasury" for All?

Chapter 3
Jonathan Pollock : Richard Carew on Cornish Commons: Farming, Fishing and Mining "in Wastrell" (1602)

Chapter 4
Janet Clare  : "The commons, knit and united to one part": Representing, Fearing and Controlling the Commons

Chapter 5
Rémi Vuillemin : "Cloistering from the common"? Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and the Power of the Commonplace

Chapter 6
Jean-Jacques Chardin : The Commons in Early Modern Emblem Literature

Stephen Collis : Coda : Commons in Motion: Walking and Refuge, from Wordsworth to the Anthropocene

 

Ours is an age of extremely fragmented experiences and identities – a fragmentation paralleled by a growing awareness that we all inhabit a common world. In reality, these two phenomena have a lot more in common than one might suspect: deeply engrained individualism and the destruction of ecosystems are two sides of the same capitalist coin. Thus, the question of "the commons" becomes more relevant than ever.This book aims to fill a gap in the recent theoretical discussion of the commons by rethinking the notion from the perspective of early modern English literature and culture. It argues that the commons needs to be shown and represented, not just theorised or discussed in abstract terms. By focusing on some of the foundational, textually embodied forms through which this notion was represented and disseminated, the essays brought together here aim not only to interrogate the ways in which the commons was framed and appropriated in early modern English texts, but also to highlight the enduring relevance of these forms to critical discussions of the commons today.

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