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The Writers of Tudor Yorkshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

A. G. Dickens
A. G. Dickens
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King's College, London.
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The title of my paper may well seem to threaten a mere essay in local antiquarianism, yet I shall have failed to achieve my main purpose should nothing more than this emerge. The purpose at least does not lack ambition, since I seek to outline a fresh scheme of attack upon some important and neglected problems of Tudor social history. No one would dispute our need to know more of the nation's mental interests, of the dissemination of ideas, of Tudor culture within its social setting, than may be gleaned from the histories of English literature. Of their nature, such works afford relatively little provender to the social historian. From the many hundreds of Tudor writers, they must select meagre samples upon an aesthetic basis, whereas to the historian the great mass of mediocre literature reveals more than do the few works of genius. Knowing the ordinary Elizabethans, one finds ‘the Age of Shakespeare’ among the more misleading of labels. Again, the literary observers tend to unbalance a period by concentrating upon its forward-looking as opposed to its declining elements. For similar reasons, their attentions stray too seldom from the letters of the metropolis and hence must underweight that majority of literate Englishmen who read and wrote in the provinces. Yet from our viewpoint, the most serious of all their limitations is their tendency to focus too narrowly upon vernacular literature. For the historian of ideas, the very concept ‘English literature’ represents a most violent abstraction from an age when so many readers and writers still operated in the Latin language.

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 13 , December 1963 , pp. 49 - 76
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1963

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