Katie Kadue
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780226797359
- eISBN:
- 9780226797526
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226797526.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Domestic Georgic argues that some of the early modern authors we most associate with groundbreaking literary feats—François Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Edmund Spenser, Andrew Marvell, John ...
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Domestic Georgic argues that some of the early modern authors we most associate with groundbreaking literary feats—François Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Edmund Spenser, Andrew Marvell, John Milton—conceived of their work as a form of housework, performing and evoking labors that were repetitive, tedious, and more like putting up preserves than creating something new. This early modern understanding of intellectual production as cyclical rather than progressive, as iterative rather than innovative, offers us a way of accessing and valuing the capacity of literature, as well as of domestic labor, to reproduce and sustain the world while preparing us for possible futures. The book's close reading of literary texts alongside recipe books and domestic manuals brings into relief the consubstantiality of poetic and material practices and preoccupations as forming the cultural fabric of early modern life.Less
Domestic Georgic argues that some of the early modern authors we most associate with groundbreaking literary feats—François Rabelais, Michel de Montaigne, Edmund Spenser, Andrew Marvell, John Milton—conceived of their work as a form of housework, performing and evoking labors that were repetitive, tedious, and more like putting up preserves than creating something new. This early modern understanding of intellectual production as cyclical rather than progressive, as iterative rather than innovative, offers us a way of accessing and valuing the capacity of literature, as well as of domestic labor, to reproduce and sustain the world while preparing us for possible futures. The book's close reading of literary texts alongside recipe books and domestic manuals brings into relief the consubstantiality of poetic and material practices and preoccupations as forming the cultural fabric of early modern life.
Poor Tom
Posthumous Love
Five Words
The Unrepentant Renaissance
The Author's Due
Dido's Daughters
From Many Gods to One
Humoring the Body
John Donne, Body and Soul
