The historical imagination in early modern Britain : history, rhetoric, and fiction, 1500-1800

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The historical imagination in early modern Britain : history, rhetoric, and fiction, 1500-1800

Title remainder

history, rhetoric, and fiction, 1500-1800

Statement of responsibility

edited by Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks

Contributor

• Kelley, Donald R., 1931-
• Sacks, David Harris, 1942-

Editor

• Kelley, Donald R., 1931-
• Sacks, David Harris, 1942-

Subject

• Imagination
• Great Britain -- History -- To 1485 -- Historiography
• Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Historiography
• Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Historiography
• Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
• Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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• Woodrow Wilson Center Press (Series)

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks