17 th c . an introduction
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17 th c . an introduction. Mid-/late-seventeenth century. p eriod: 1630s-1680s (developing British empire; it we must work with periods and place -- “British” -- we need to think about empire ) political ideas and conflict: civil war & colonial expansion - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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17th c. an introduction
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Mid-/late-seventeenth century
• period: 1630s-1680s (developing British empire; it we must work with periods and place -- “British” -- we need to think about empire )
• political ideas and conflict: civil war & colonial expansion
• institutions of science, medicine, technology• genres of media and literature• examples of events through which to read the
connections: plague & fire
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Two end points to work from:
1649 – the execution of Charles I – regicide. Conflicts over theology and global and local economics; BUT also the function of the sovereign (“kingship”).
1692 – the beginning of the witchcraft trials in Salem, MA (the “colonies”).
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• First English novel, Oroonoko ? • Broadsides and Ballads• Newspapers• Going viral: changing role and circulation of
images (within poetry and prose)
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Traherne: I saw new worlds beneath the water lie, New people, and another sky.— Thomas Traherne, On Leaping over the Moon (NAEL 8, 1.1772)
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Multiple pasts/presents
We don’t all have the same past/present…
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Catastrophic events
Great plague of London, 166575,000 and 100,000 of London’s rapidly expanding population of about 460,000.
Great fire of London, September 2, 1666.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbr4rQEfQtY&feature=related