Writing Early Modern London: A study on the spatial negotiation of Whitney’s Sweet Nosegay and other London Poems
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This paper examines the sociopolitical circumstances preconditioning Isabella Whitney's Sweet Nosegay, especially in the context of spatial restrictions on Renaissance women, and discusses the ways in which Whitney subverts such restrictions on her through a literal and imaginary excursion into London civic space. In oder to illustrate Whitney's extraordinary mobility and copious knowledge of London, this paper also devotes much of its pages to a critical comparison between “Her Will to London,” Whitney's major poetic achievement in Sweet Nosegay, and other contemporary (male) humanists' poetic works. This comparison has made it clear that Whitney embraces London and its everyday commercial activities as they are, without false presumptions and without subordinating them to “nobler” aesthetic judgement or moral values, unlike what Ben Jonson and John Denham did in their London poems.
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This paper examines the sociopolitical circumstances preconditioning Isabella Whitney's Sweet Nosegay, especially in the context of spatial restrictions on Renaissance women, and discusses the ways in which Whitney subverts such restrictions on her through a literal and imaginary excursion into London civic space. In oder to illustrate Whitney's extraordinary mobility and copious knowledge of London, this paper also devotes much of its pages to a critical comparison between “Her Will to London,” Whitney's major poetic achievement in Sweet Nosegay, and other contemporary (male) humanists' poetic works. This comparison has made it clear that Whitney embraces London and its everyday commercial activities as they are, without false presumptions and without subordinating them to “nobler” aesthetic judgement or moral values, unlike what Ben Jonson and John Denham did in their London poems.
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