Credit History to Civic History
Thomas Middleton and the Politics of Urban Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23479108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Gordon (0000-0002-4190-2268) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 155-199 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Writing Early Modern London (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137294920_5 |
| OpenAlex | W2498733752 |
| ISBN | 9781137294920 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
‘Antiquities’, wrote Francis Bacon in 1605, ‘are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time’. 1 His characterisation of those ‘industrious persons [who] by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation ... do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time’ appears tailor-made to describe, just as it drew to a close, the lifetime of labour devoted by Stow to discovering the remains of London. 2 Where the author of the Survey had dedicated himself to recovering the materials of London’s history, however, the work of the newly-emergent author Thomas Middleton put itself forward as a study of civic forgetting. The forces of forgetting, cast by Bacon as elemental and material threats to the project of history, find themselves dramatised as central players in Middleton’s theatre of London life. The man who would penetrate the networks of civic patronage to become the first City Chronologer, began his literary apprenticeship by anatomising onstage London’s memorial crisis. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Apprenticeship · Archaeology · Art history · Diligence · Forgetting · Political science · Politics · Theology · Classics · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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