The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain write by Donald R. Kelley. This book was released on 1997-09-13. The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.
Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination
Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination write by Chloe Wheatley. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Uses of History in Early Modern England
The Uses of History in Early Modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Uses of History in Early Modern England write by Paulina Kewes. This book was released on 2006. The Uses of History in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries write by Hugh Dunthorne. This book was released on 2012-11-01. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature
The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature write by Deanna Smid. This book was released on 2017-08-28. The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature, Deanna Smid presents a literary, historical account of imagination in early modern English literature, paying special attention to its effects on the body, to its influence on women, to its restraint by reason, and to its ability to create novelty. An early modern definition of imagination emerges in the work of Robert Burton, Francis Bacon, Edward Reynolds, and Margaret Cavendish. Smid explores a variety of literary texts, from Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler to Francis Quarles’s Emblems, to demonstrate the literary consequences of the early modern imagination. The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature insists that, if we are to call an early modern text “imaginative,” we must recognize the unique characteristics of early modern English imagination, in all its complexity.
