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This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity.
This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity.
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Autorenporträt
Andrea Brady is Lecturer in early modern literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Emily Butterworth teaches sixteenth-century French literature and thought at King's College London. She is the author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France (Oxford, 2006).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000, Peter Burke Introduction, Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth 1. In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism, A. Wade Razzi 2. Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country, Richard Scholar 3. 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia, J.K. Barret 4. Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other, Brinda Charry 5. 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time, Andrew Hiscock 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil, Michael Harrigan 7. Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts One and Two and All's Well That Ends Well, Nina Taunton 8. The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon, A. P. Langman 9. Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris, Phillip John Usher 10. Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), Peter J. Forshaw 11. Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications, Hugh Roberts 12. 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy, Rob Iliffe Notes on Contributors Index
List of Figures Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000, Peter Burke Introduction, Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth 1. In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism, A. Wade Razzi 2. Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country, Richard Scholar 3. 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia, J.K. Barret 4. Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other, Brinda Charry 5. 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time, Andrew Hiscock 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil, Michael Harrigan 7. Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts One and Two and All's Well That Ends Well, Nina Taunton 8. The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon, A. P. Langman 9. Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris, Phillip John Usher 10. Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), Peter J. Forshaw 11. Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications, Hugh Roberts 12. 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy, Rob Iliffe Notes on Contributors Index
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