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.
Bibliography
On the Harmonies
- Acland-Troyte 1888 -- early accounts of Harmonies, written from perspective of someone who owned one (now the Cotsen volume)
- Henderson 1982 -- on Bolswert's engravings as extra-illustrations in Bibles, relationship to Laudian controversies
- Stewart 1986 -- chapter on the Harmonies as materializations of values of Herbert's verse
- Dyck 2003 -- on active reading and harmony construction as Herbertian process of devotion
- 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
- Nelson and Terras 2012 -- Dyck et al. on process of digitizing/marking up King's Harmony
- Dekoninck et al. 2012 -- Michael Gaudio, discussion of concordances as both obsessed with visual imagery and iconoclastic, esp. Acts and Revelations
- Smyth 2012 -- on Herbert's verse and the rhetoric of cutting, quoting Harmonies & their connection to GH
- Gaudio 2013 -- Harmonies as walking fine line between popery and puritanism; Laudian double-rhetoric
- Smyth 2015 -- denaturalizes cutting/pasting; on archive of unusued prints
- Cop 2016 -- drawing attention to LG's use of Garthwait's Monotesseron in King's Harmony
On the Story Books & Little Academy
- Barbour 2001 -- reads LG, esp Story Books, as example of Caroline "church heroic," a post-Elizabethan Protestant synthesis of myth and lived reality
- Lynch and Scott 2008 -- Kate Riley, background and context on purpose of Little Academy
- 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
On Nicholas Ferrar or LG in general
- Bindley 1887 -- brief first-hand account of a pilgrimage to LG; rehashing biography's descriptions of life in the community
- Fletcher 1893 -- brief mention of community in context of history of bookbinding
- Skipton 1907 -- biography/hagiography of Nicholas Ferrar
- Ransome 2009 -- on the afterlife of LG, efforts to publish NF biography and material remnants of community -- plans to use this material to support development of religious socities
- Ransome 2011 -- biography of Nicholas Ferrar and the community
- Ransome 2015 -- on the "Instructions" of NF and education at LG
On Mary Ferrar
- Sharland 1912 -- about Mary Collet as "Mother" of the community, and a letter from Crashaw mentioning his affection for her after his exile
- Pebworth and Summers 1997 -- Paul Parrish, article on LG as proto-feminist community, focusing on Mary Collet and relation to Crashaw
- 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
On Herbert & LG
- Stewart 1986 -- chapter on the Harmonies as materializations of values of Herbert's verse
- Dyck 2003 -- on active reading and harmony construction as Herbertian process of devotion
- Ransome 2008 -- focusing especially on development of night vigils and temperance; translations of Valdes and others
- Smyth 2012 -- on Herbert's verse and the rhetoric of cutting, quoting Harmonies & their connection to GH
Cutting / Fragmentation
- Erler 1992 -- "pasted-in embellishments"
- 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.
- Smyth 2012 -- on Herbert's verse and the rhetoric of cutting, quoting Harmonies & their connection to GH
Early Modern Women / Religion / Bibles
- Coles 2008 -- argues that the figure of the religious woman had disruptive cultural power
- Killeen 2011 -- short article arguing we need a more robust understanding of how the bible shaped discussions around regicide; take seriously religious beliefs and biblical rhetoric
- Molekamp 2013 -- most comprehensive study of early modern women's religious writings and experiences to date
Acland-Troytes
Acland-Troyte family papers in the Devon Archives: http://devon-cat.swheritage.org.uk/records/ACT
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"
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
Anachronic Renaissance
"polychronic" readings -- Latour, Serres
Feminisms
Kember 2016 -- offers up a model of genre blending (interwoven excerpts from novel-in-progress, theory, manifesto); influenced deeply by Haraway and "Sf", finding figures that are in-between; reading of "manifesto" that could ground the genre of the intro; queries glass and its intentions to mediate transparently whill still being present (c.f. with Galloway 2012 -- media aim to but can never fully disappear), and advocates hypermediacy as feminist alternative; showing/exposing the messiness of mediation as feminist strategy to undo/rewrite/restory the myths of technology