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Imagining early modern histories /

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kavey, Allison, 1977- (Editor ), Ketner, Elizabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction Imagining Early Modern Histories
  • Part I Histories Written and Enacted
  • 1 Shouting Distance: Local History and a Global Empire in Lope de Vega's Famosa comedia del nuevomundo descubierto por Cristobal Colón
  • 2 Enclosure and the Spatialization of History in Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst"
  • 3 From Antimasque to Execution: Revising History Through Performance
  • Part II Histories Created and Assigned
  • 4 "I'll to my book": The Legacy of the Corpus Hermeticum in Renaissance Magic
  • 5 The Imagined Among the Real: The Country of Women in Traditional and Early Modern Chinese Geographical Accounts and Maps
  • 6 Looking for the Unknown Asia: The Asian Mystique in Early Modern European Textual History
  • Part III Fictions Histories
  • 7 "Secretarie now, but to the dead": Samuel Daniel and the Just Aesthetics of History
  • 8 "The gap / That we shall make in time": Emblematics and the Queer Drive of History in Cymbeline
  • 9 "A Fable Like a Historie": Lady Mary Wroth's "Heathen Fiction"
  • Part IV Fictions of the Self and the State: Gender and Innocence
  • 10 Fictions and Lies: Accusations of Spousal Homicide and Adultery in France
  • 11 Speaking from the Edges: Toward a Feminine Historiography in Story XXI of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron
  • 12 Fiction and Biography, Self and Identity in Antonio di Tuccio Manetti's Il grasso legnaiuolo
  • Index.