The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500-1800Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks Cambridge University Press, 13 de set. 1997 - 374 pàgines This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fictional aspects of history, and the historical aspects of fiction, in prose narratives of many sorts. The interests and inquiries of these learned, imaginative, and venturesome scholars cross at many points, casting significant light on and offering numerous insights into the problematic and interdisciplinary areas where 'history' and 'story' meet, interact, and sometimes compete. Despite the theoretical questions posed, the discussions primarily focus on concrete works, including those of Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon. |
Continguts
historica J H M Salmon | 11 |
Truth lies and fiction in sixteenthcentury Protestant | 37 |
History | 69 |
Little Crosby and the horizons of early modern historical | 93 |
Holinsheds impertinent | 133 |
The power | 159 |
Experience truth and natural history in early English | 179 |
Thomas Hobbess Machiavellian moments David Wootton | 210 |
The background of Hobbess Behemoth Fritz Levy | 243 |
Leviathan mythic history and national | 267 |
Protesting fiction constructing history J Paul Hunter | 298 |
Social | 318 |
Contemplative heroes and Gibbons historical | 343 |
Contributors | 361 |
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Acts and Monuments ancient anecdote antiquarian antiquity Arden of Faversham Arden story Arden's murder argument Bacon Behemoth Blundell Blundell's Bohun Cambridge University Press Camden Catholic Chronicles church cited civil claim classical coins contemporary culture Davenant Degory Wheare discourse discussion early modern Early Modern Britain edition Edmund Bolton Edward Edward Gibbon England essay example Faversham fiction Foxe Foxe's genre Gibbon Gondibert Helgerson Henry historians historiography Hobbes's Holinshed Holinshed's human humanist Hythloday Ibid imagination John John Foxe king Lancs RO DDBI letters Leviathan literary literature Little Crosby London Machiavelli martyrs matter medieval Method and Order moral More's narrative natural history Oxford philosophy poet poetry political Polybius practice preface Prince Princeton readers Renaissance rhetoric Richard Roman Second Spira Sidney Smith social Tacitus theory things Thomas Hobbes Thucydides tion tradition translation true truth Tudor Utopia Wheare William William Camden
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