Jack Lynch

The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780521819077
• ISBN-10: 0521819075
• Artikelnr.: 26659412

Autorenporträt

Jack Lynch is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He is co-editor, with Paul J. Korshin, of The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual. He is the author of A Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1986-1998 (2000) and Samuel Johnson''s Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Note on the texts and citation
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic
2. Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age
3. Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians
4. The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability
5. The ground-work of stile: language and national identity
6. Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress
7. The last age: Renaissance lost
Notes
Bibliography
Index.