Research Catalog

Title

Concepts of creativity in seventeenth-century England / edited by Rebecca Herissone and Alan Howard.

Publication

Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Herissone, Rebecca.
• Howard, Alan.

Description

354 p. : ill.; 25 cm

Summary

In the seventeenth century, the concept of creativity was far removed from most of the fundamental ideas about the creative act - notions of human imagination, inspiration, originality and genius - that developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Instead, in this period, students learned their crafts by copying and imitating past masters and did not consciously seek to break away from tradition. Most new material was made on the instructions of a patron and had to conform to external expectations; and basic tenets that we tend to take for granted-such as the primacy and individuality of the author-were apparently considered irrelevant in some contexts. The aim of this interdisciplinary collection of essays is to explore what it meant to create buildings and works of art, music and literature in seventeenth-century England and to investigate the processes by which such creations came into existence.

Subjects

• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > 17th century
• Creative ability
• Music > England > 17th century > History and criticism
• England > Civilization > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-341) and index.

Call Number

JFE 14-2279

ISBN

• 9781843837404
• 1843837404

OCLC

859645697

Title

Concepts of creativity in seventeenth-century England / edited by Rebecca Herissone and Alan Howard.

Imprint

Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-341) and index.

Added Author

Herissone, Rebecca.

Howard, Alan.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-2279