The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain

History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500 1800
Herausgeber: Hamilton, Lee H.; Sacks, David Harris; Kelley, Donald R.

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Produktbeschreibung

Distinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780521590693
• ISBN-10: 0521590698
• Artikelnr.: 24324397

Inhaltsangabe

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.