Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London

Christopher D'Addario is the author of Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature (2007) and the co-editor of Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell (2018). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on various authors that have appeared in journals such as English Literary History and English Literary Renaissance, as well as in several edited collections.

• 1. Thomas Nashe and the Processing of Urban Experience; 2. Pierce's Heirs: Satire at the Inns of Court and in the City; 3. The Social Quotidian in John Manningham's Diary; 4. Stillness and Noise: Donne's Songs and Sonnets in c. 1600 London; Epilogue. The Future of the Metaphysical.

'Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London makes an important contribution to scholarship-in two principal ways. First, in the argument itself, which locates the renowned 'Metaphysical' style of authorship not where we are used to finding it, in the seventeenth century, in John Donne and his school, but initially in the late sixteenth century, as inaugurated by Thomas Nashe. Second, the other authors whom D'Addario features are unique as a set: in addition to Donne, they include John Marston, John Manningham, Edward Guilpin, and Samuel Rowlands. D'Addario is an eloquent prose stylist, and a learned scholar. He writes with verve, and care.' Patrick Cheney, Penn State University