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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London (Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700)

Scott Oldenburg

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Description:"Oldenburg's clear and compassionate prose goes above and beyond the usual impact of an academic text, providing a moving depiction of a life that is now, unfortunately, almost too familiar. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague is a story about Muggins's struggle and loss. But it is also about the dignity of labor, the necessity of mutual aid and economic support systems, and the potential of local social networks to come together in support of one another, especially in grief. In a moment where plague stories are freshly relevant, Muggins's story is precisely the one we need: a story of loss, yes, but also one of hope."--Eileen Sperry, Kritikon Litterarum vol. 49, nos. 1-2 (2022)."A Weaver-Poet and the Plague interacts expertly with primary sources and secondary literature about the plague, the labor of poor men and women in early modern London, grief and gender. This original book offers a fascinating reading of the weaver William Muggins's poem London's Mourning Garment (1603) and a compelling microhistory of this poet in relation to his social network. Oldenburg offers a fresh perspective on a 'nonaristocratic aesthetics' of low and middling sorts of poets and prose writers."—Jennifer C. Vaught, author of Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser"Scott Oldenburg's interdisciplinary approach in A Weaver-Poet and the Plague, with its synthesis of historical detail and literary textual analysis, offers numerous insights into how plague writing related to everyday life in early modern England. The level of archival research in the manuscript, and particularly the use of parish registers, is to be applauded."—Kathleen Miller, Queen's University Belfast"[T]his is a remarkable book, and the reorientation it offers is profound."-William N. West (Northwestern University), SEL:Studies in English Literature vol. 61, no. 2 (2021).William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague ’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London’s “middling sort” during the plague of 1603. In debt, in prison, and at odds with his livery company, Muggins was forced to move his family from the central London neighborhood called the Poultry to the far poorer and more densely populated parish of St. Olave’s in Southwark. It was here, confined to his home as that parish was devastated by the plague, that Muggins wrote his minor epic, London’s Mourning Garment , in 1603. The poem laments the loss of life and the suffering brought on by the plague but also reflects on the social and economic woes of the city, from the pains of motherhood and childrearing to anxieties about poverty, insurmountable debt, and a system that had failed London’s most vulnerable. Part literary criticism, part microhistory, this book reconstructs Muggins’s household, his reading, his professional and social networks, and his proximity to a culture of radical religion in Southwark. Featuring an appendix with a complete version of London’s Mourning Garment , this volume presents a street-level view of seventeenth-century London that gives agency and voice to a class that is often portrayed as passive and voiceless.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London (Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700). To get started finding A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London (Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Oldenburg's clear and compassionate prose goes above and beyond the usual impact of an academic text, providing a moving depiction of a life that is now, unfortunately, almost too familiar. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague is a story about Muggins's struggle and loss. But it is also about the dignity of labor, the necessity of mutual aid and economic support systems, and the potential of local social networks to come together in support of one another, especially in grief. In a moment where plague stories are freshly relevant, Muggins's story is precisely the one we need: a story of loss, yes, but also one of hope."--Eileen Sperry, Kritikon Litterarum vol. 49, nos. 1-2 (2022)."A Weaver-Poet and the Plague interacts expertly with primary sources and secondary literature about the plague, the labor of poor men and women in early modern London, grief and gender. This original book offers a fascinating reading of the weaver William Muggins's poem London's Mourning Garment (1603) and a compelling microhistory of this poet in relation to his social network. Oldenburg offers a fresh perspective on a 'nonaristocratic aesthetics' of low and middling sorts of poets and prose writers."—Jennifer C. Vaught, author of Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser"Scott Oldenburg's interdisciplinary approach in A Weaver-Poet and the Plague, with its synthesis of historical detail and literary textual analysis, offers numerous insights into how plague writing related to everyday life in early modern England. The level of archival research in the manuscript, and particularly the use of parish registers, is to be applauded."—Kathleen Miller, Queen's University Belfast"[T]his is a remarkable book, and the reorientation it offers is profound."-William N. West (Northwestern University), SEL:Studies in English Literature vol. 61, no. 2 (2021).William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague ’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London’s “middling sort” during the plague of 1603. In debt, in prison, and at odds with his livery company, Muggins was forced to move his family from the central London neighborhood called the Poultry to the far poorer and more densely populated parish of St. Olave’s in Southwark. It was here, confined to his home as that parish was devastated by the plague, that Muggins wrote his minor epic, London’s Mourning Garment , in 1603. The poem laments the loss of life and the suffering brought on by the plague but also reflects on the social and economic woes of the city, from the pains of motherhood and childrearing to anxieties about poverty, insurmountable debt, and a system that had failed London’s most vulnerable. Part literary criticism, part microhistory, this book reconstructs Muggins’s household, his reading, his professional and social networks, and his proximity to a culture of radical religion in Southwark. Featuring an appendix with a complete version of London’s Mourning Garment , this volume presents a street-level view of seventeenth-century London that gives agency and voice to a class that is often portrayed as passive and voiceless.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London (Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700). To get started finding A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare’s London (Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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