Projektnummer

0058981

Zusammenfassung

It is perhaps because of modernity's insatiable demand for novelty that this subject has been largely overlooked: custom in early modern English literature. The term "custom" is now understood to invoke the dead weight of the past and dismissed as an impediment to progress. Time Out of Mind argues for the centrality of this elusive temporal category in the imaginary of early modern writers and seeks to account for its appeal as they confronted the history of their generic forms, their language, and their native land. When discussed by literary scholars, custom usually is employed as a ...