A Likeness Only Fancied? Lancelot Andrewes and Gertrude Stein

Abstract

Abstract:WHEWELL: This essay is a critical experiment in learning to read the early modern by the modernist, and vice versa, and trying at the same time to enact an argument by way of hunch. It walks Lancelot Andrewes (particularly his Easter sermons in 1597, 1604 and 1605) alongside Gertrude Stein (particularly her 1926 'Composition as Explanation') to show how each provides a valuable means to understand the eccentric and beguiling punning and repetitive prose kinetics of other, and to map the related ways by which they both coach our reading attention and teach us about it.