Modern Antiques - The Material Past in England, 1660-1780

Modern Antiques argues that the reinvention of the past was fundamental to the development of modernity in England during the long eighteenth century. Bringing together the fields of literary criticism, historiography, material culture studies, and book history, Kalter offers new interpretations of Dryden, Gray, and Walpole, showing how these authors appropriated contemporary historical research to create nostalgic and ironic alternatives to the present-modern antiques.

Sommario

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Introduction: The Time Bound and the Modern Antique Chapter 3 The "Cob-web law" and the Fundamental Law: History, Chronology, and Poetic License Chapter 4 Chaucer Ancient and Modern: Standardization, Modernization, and the Eighteenth-Century Reception of The Canterbury Tales Chapter 5 DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval Revival Chapter 6 Horace Walpole's Fugitive Pieces: Collecting and Ephemerality Chapter 7 Conclusion

Info autore

Barrett Kalter is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Barrett Kalter
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611483789
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-378-9
• Pagine: 260
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Peso: 522 g
• Serie: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Lit, Thought & C; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata