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Historical literatures : Writing about the past in England, 1660-1740 /
'I have called my poem historical, not epic,' John Dryden explained in the dedication to his panegyric Annus Mirabilis, 'though both the actions and actors are as much heroic, as any poem can contain.'While it's unlikely that any critic today would class Annus Mirabilis with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Memoir. Memoirs and the history of the individual ; Apostrophe : Colley Cibber's Apology and the development of social history ; Analogy : John Evelyn's Kalendarium and the public diary tradition
- 2. Secret history. Secret histories as histories ; Narrative voices : Daniel Defoe's Secret History of the White-staff in dialogue ; Narrative personae : Delarivier Manley's Secret Memoirs and Manners and the modern chronicle
- 3. Satire and panegyric. Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing ; Metonymy : Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem ; Metaphor : John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory
- 4. History reconsidered. Rethinking history at its 'lowest ebb' ; Secret history and Roger North's 'historical controversy' ; History with a 'design' : satire and John Oldmixon's History of England during the reigns of the Royal House of Stuart.