Echoes of the Little Gidding Harmonies

This is a space for research notes on my monograph, based on my dissertation. For dissertation notes on Little Gidding, see this link.

Biibliography

Articles about the Harmonies or LG

Bindley 1887 -- brief first-hand account of a pilgrimage to LG; rehashing biography's descriptions of life in the community

Acland-Troyte 1888 -- early accounts of Harmonies, written from perspective of someone who owned one (now the Cotsen volume)

Fletcher 1893 -- brief mention of community in context of history of bookbinding

Skipton 1907 -- biography/hagiography of Nicholas Ferrar

Sharland 1912 -- about Mary Collet as "Mother" of the community, and a letter from Crashaw mentioning his affection for her after his exile

Henderson 1982 -- on Bolswert's engravings as extra-illustrations in Bibles, relationship to Laudian controversies

Pebworth and Summers 1997 -- Paul Parrish, article on LG as proto-feminist community, focusing on Mary Collet and relation to Crashaw

Barbour 2001 -- reads LG, esp Story Books, as example of Caroline "church heroic," a post-Elizabethan Protestant synthesis of myth and lived reality

Ransome 2005 -- account of the Harmonies and changes to them over time

Baron et al. 2007 -- Aston on use of Images from Foxe's Book of Martyrs in the King's Harmony

Dyck 2008 -- overview and close reading of King's Harmony, including some moving parts; excellent descriptions of Bibles used and their connection to court

Hallock et al. 2008 -- discussion of some of the natural imagery in King's Harmony & eclectic model of ecological justice

Lynch and Scott 2008 -- Kate Riley, background and context on purpose of Little Academy

Ransome 2011 -- biography of Nicholas Ferrar and the community

Dekoninck et al. 2012 -- Michael Gaudio, discussion of concordances as both obsessed with visual imagery and iconoclastic, esp. Acts and Revelations

Shuger 2014 -- excellent discussion of LG as experiment in republicanism and even feminism, through close readings of the Story Books and Mary's role as Mother

Cutting / Fragmentation

Smyth 2004

A discussion of John Gibson's commonplace or miscellany, showing how he used fragmented prints and printed texts, anagrams, and collecting practices to express a pro-Crown agenda.

transtemporal

"Transnational history is all the rage. Transtemporal history has yet to come into vogue." (Guldi and Armitage 2014 15)

preposterous history -- ""In alignment with intercultural relationality, we could call it intertemporal . Such a term reminds us of the thick mutuality of relation, as opposed to a lean linearity of progress." (Bal 2008 152)

--> read Bal, Quoting Caravaggio, for more on preposterous history

Harris 2009 on "untimely matter"

Dane 2013

Erkki Huhtamo's latest book

Geology of Media

Manuel de Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

microhistory -- Ginzburg 1980

Zielinski -- deep time of the media