The Historical Imagination In Early Modern Britain

Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590693
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Author : Chloe Wheatley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317142020
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination written by Chloe Wheatley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Harriet Lyon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516407
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England written by Harriet Lyon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the seismic impact of the dissolution of the monasteries, offering a new perspective on the English Reformation.

Author : Hugh Dunthorne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004233792
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries written by Hugh Dunthorne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873282192
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of History in Early Modern England written by Paulina Kewes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Deanna Smid
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344047
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature written by Deanna Smid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Theodore Koditschek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494880
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination written by Theodore Koditschek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.

Author : Sophie Read
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032733
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England written by Sophie Read and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of six canonical early modern lyric poets and the impact of the Eucharist on their work.

Author : Dr Chloe Wheatley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140947870X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination written by Dr Chloe Wheatley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1317182014
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Collins and the Historical Imagination written by W. Scott Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.