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Author : Donald R. Kelley,David Harris Sacks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521590698
Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.
Author : Chloe Wheatley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317142027
In early modern England, epitomes-texts promising to pare down, abridge, or sum up the essence of their authoritative sources-provided readers with key historical knowledge without the bulk, expense, or time commitment demanded by greater volumes. Epic poets in turn addressed the habits of reading and thinking that, for better and for worse, were popularized by the publication of predigested works. Analyzing popular texts such as chronicle summaries, abridgements of sacred epic, and abstracts of civil war debate, Chloe Wheatley charts the efflorescence of a lively early modern epitome culture, and demonstrates its impact upon Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Abraham Cowley's Davideis, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Clearly and elegantly written, this new study presents fresh insight into how poets adapted an important epic convention-the representation of the hero's confrontation with summaries of past and future-to reflect contemporary trends in early modern history writing.
Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0873282191
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Author : Hugh Dunthorne,Michael Wintle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004233799
The 19th century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.
Author : Dr Chloe Wheatley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478706
In early modern England, epitomes-texts promising to pare down, abridge, or sum up the essence of their authoritative sources-provided readers with key historical knowledge without the bulk, expense, or time commitment demanded by greater volumes. Epic poets in turn addressed the habits of reading and thinking that, for better and for worse, were popularized by the publication of predigested works. Analyzing popular texts such as chronicle summaries, abridgements of sacred epic, and abstracts of civil war debate, Chloe Wheatley charts the efflorescence of a lively early modern epitome culture, and demonstrates its impact upon Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Abraham Cowley's Davideis, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Clearly and elegantly written, this new study presents fresh insight into how poets adapted an important epic convention-the representation of the hero's confrontation with summaries of past and future-to reflect contemporary trends in early modern history writing.
Author : W. Scott Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317182016
The first edited collection of scholarly essays to focus exclusively on An Collins, this volume examines the significance of an important religious and political poet from seventeenth-century England. The book celebrates Collins’s writing within her own time and ours through a comprehensive assessment of her poetics, literary, religious and political contexts, critical reception, and scholarly tradition. An Collins and the Historical Imagination engages with the complete arc of research and interpretation concerning Collins’s poetry from 1653 to the present. The volume defines the center and circumference of Collins scholarship for twenty-first century readers. The book’s thematically linked chapters and appendices provide a multifaceted investigation of An Collins’s writing, religious and political milieu, and literary legacy within her time and ours.
Author : Elizabeth Ketner,Allison Kavey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134803972
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
Author : Harriet Lyon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516409
Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.
Author : Stephen Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1474217370
"Exploring the historical imagination through medieval and early modern writers and texts, from Christian historians such as Bede to secular chronicles, Geoffrey of Monmouth to Chaucer and Malory, Imagining History in Medieval Britain moves away from a chronological approach to assess the writing of history thematically. Chapters are designed to be comprehensive in mapping the major texts of medieval historical writing but are also intended to challenge current understandings by juxtaposing texts with themes which are informed by the postmodern sense of crisis in historical representation. The book frames its exploration of medieval history writing with reference to key thinkers of contemporary historiographical theory including Foucault, de Certeau, Collingwood and Hayden White. While introducing students to the main currents of medieval history writing, this book also challenges the strictures imposed by the discipline of history as it has emerged since the 18th century. Sidebars pose additional methodological and theoretical questions and each chapter contains suggestions for further reading."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Author : Freyja Cox Jensen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004233218
Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England. The existing scholarship, preoccupied with republicanism in the decades before the Civil Wars, and focusing on the major drama of the period, has distorted our understanding of what ancient history really meant to early modern readers. This study articulates the connections between the history of education, reading and writing, and challenges the schools of historical thought which associate a particular classical source with one set of readings; here, for the first time, is an in-depth analysis of the role of Roman history in creating an English latinate culture which encompassed far wider debates and ideas than the purely political.
Author : Tatiana C. String,Marcus Bull
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0197264948
In architecture, music and literature, in paintings, films and television series, in print and on the internet, the Tudors are a hugely popular commodity. This volume is the first to study this phenomenon in depth, assembling foremost scholars in multiple fields to examine why the Tudors still make such an impact.
Author : D. R. Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521780462
A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.
Author : Helen L. Parish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441100320
Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time, providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The essays are organised around five key themes and areas of controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions; Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific, religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a perennially fascinating topic.
Author : Martha Vandrei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192548689
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse, from the early-modern rediscovery of the works of Tacitus to the first historical films of the early twentieth century. In doing so, the book seeks to demonstrate the continuity and persistence of historical ideas across time and throughout a variety of media. This focus on continuity leads into an examination of the nature of history as a cultural phenomenon and the implications this has for our own conceptions of history and its role in culture more generally. While providing contemporary contextual readings of Boudica's representations, Martha Vandrei also explores the unique nature of historical ideas as durable cultural phenomena, articulated by very different individuals over time, all of whom were nevertheless engaged in the creative process of making history. Thus this study presents a challenge to the axioms of cultural history, new historicism, and other mainstays of twentieth- and twenty-first- century historical scholarship. It shows how, long before professional historians sought to monopolise historical practice, audiences encountered visions of past ages created by antiquaries, playwrights, poets, novelists, and artists, all of which engaged with, articulated, and even defined the meaning of 'historical truth'. This book argues that these individual depictions, variable audience reactions, and the abiding notion of history as truth constitute the substance of historical culture.
Author : Deanna Smid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004344044
Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, particularly imagination’s effects on the body and on women, its restraint by reason, and its ability to create novelty.