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History and the early English novel : matters of fact from Bacon to Defoe /
"This new study of the origins of the English novel argues that the novel emerged from historical writing. Examining historical writers and forms frequently neglected by earlier scholars, Robert Mayer shows that in the seventeenth century historical discourse embraced not only "history&quo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Baconian historiography: the contours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England
- 2. "Idle Trash" or "Reliques of Something True"?: the fate of Brut and Arthur and the power of tradition
- 3. The History of Myddle: memory, history, and power
- 4. Lifewriting and historiography, fiction and fact: Baxter, Clarendon, and Hutchinson on the English Civil War
- 5. The secret history of the last Stuart kings
- 6. "Knowing strange things": historical discourse in the century before Robinson Crusoe
- 7. "History" before Defoe: Nashe, Deloney, Behn, Manley
- 8. Defoe's historical practice: from "The Ages Humbles Servant" to Major Alexander Ramkins
- 9. "Facts that are form'd to touch the mind": Defoe's narratives as forms of historical discourse
- 10. From history to the novel: the reception of Defoe.