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.
| ISBN: | 9780521521239 |
| Publication date: | 22nd August 2002 |
| Author: | Donald R Rutgers University, New Jersey Kelley |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Series: | Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 European history Historiography |
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 Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, European history, Historiography
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The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain was written by Donald R Rutgers University, New Jersey Kelley and published by Cambridge University Press
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain has 392 pages
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