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Zusatztext This is a book that demands and deserves close reading. Its rewards are in the details ... and in the freshness of observation which Vine brings to his task. Its scholarship and its range of reference are impressive; its style is engaging and assured. Much valuable material from manuscript sources is added to our knowledge of the subject. The antiquarian imagination is working at full power here. Informationen zum Autor Angus Vine is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Sussex. He completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, and he works on the literature and intellectual history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, with elated research interests in the history of science, the history of the book and manuscript culture. With Dr Richard Serjeantson (University of Cambridge) he is editing The Oxford Francis Bacon, Volume III: Earlier Jacobean Writings, 1603-1613. Klappentext In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden. Zusammenfassung In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations List of abbreviations Note on text Introduction 1: Material Beginnings: John Leland, John Twyne, John Stow 2: Origins and Names: Etymology and the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries 3: Restoring Britain: Courtesy and Collaboration in Camden's Britannia 4: Monuments and Megaliths: From Stonehenge to 'Stonage' 5: A Peripatetic Education: Antiquarian Travellers and the Apodemic Arts 6: Antiquarian Readers: The Case of Drayton and Selden Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index ...
