Modern antiques : the material past in England, 1660-1780 /

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Modern Antiques argues that the reinvention of the past was fundamental to the development of modernity in England during the long eighteenth century. Bringing together the fields of literary criticism, historiography, material culture studies, and book history, Kalter offers new interpretations of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kalter, Barrett
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:
1500-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history > England.
Chronology in literature.
Time in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et histoire > Angleterre.
Temps dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature and history.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the time bound and the modern antique
  • The "Cobweb-law" and the Fundamental law: history, chronology and poetic license
  • Chaucer ancient and modern: standardization, modernization, and the eighteenth-century reception of The Canterbury tales
  • DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval revival
  • Horace Walpole's fugitive pieces: collecting and ephemerality.

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