Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain - History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500-1800

Zusammenfassung Some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explore the overlap! interplay! and interaction between history and fiction in British writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment! with the primary focus on writers such as Thomas More! John Foxe! Thomas Hobbes! Adam Smith! and Edward Gibbon. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Donald Kelley and David Harris Sacks; 2. Example and truth: Deggory Wheare and the ars historica J. H. M. Salmon; 3. Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography Patrick Collinson; 4. Thomas More and the English Renaissance: history and fiction in Utopia Joseph Levine; 5. Ancestral and antiquarian: Little Crosby and early modern historical culture Daniel Woolf; 6. Murder in Faversham: Holinshed's impertinent history Richard Helgerson; 7. Foul, his Wife, the Mayor, and Foul's Mare: anecdote in Tudor historiography Annabel Patterson; 8. Thomas Hobbes' Machiavellian moments David Wooton; 9. The background of Hobbes' Behemoth Fritz Levy; 10. Leviathan, mythic history, and natural historiography Patricia Springborg; 11. Adam Smith and the history of private life Mark Phillips; 12. Protesting fiction, constructing history Paul Hunter; 13. Contemplative heroes and Gibbon's historical imagination Patricia Craddock; 14. Experience, truth, and natural history in early English gardening books Rebecca Bushnell.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Donald R. Kelley, Donald R. (Rutgers University Kelley, Donald R. Sacks Kelley
• Mitarbeit: Donald R. Kelley (Herausgeber), Kelley Donald R. (Herausgeber), David Harris Sack (Herausgeber), David Harris Sacks (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521521239
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52123-9
• Seiten: 392
• Serien: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historiography, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form