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The age of Elizabeth in the age of Johnson /

"In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lynch, Jack (John T.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic
  • 2. Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age
  • 3. Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians
  • 4. The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability
  • 5. The ground-work of stile: language and national identity
  • 6. Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress
  • 7. The last age: Renaissance lost.