Historical literatures

Writing about the past in England, 1660–1740

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvNoelle Gallagher

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Newly available in paperback, Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early eighteenth century English historical writing. Highlighting the wide variety of historical works being printed and read in England between the years 1660 and 1740, it demonstrates that many of the genres that we now view primarily as literary – verse satire and panegyric, memoir, scandal and chronicle – were also being used to represent historical phenomena. In surveying some of this period’s 'historical literatures', it argues that many satirists, secret historians and memoirists made their choice of historical subject matter a topic of explicit commentary, presenting themselves as historians or inscribing their works in an English historical tradition. By responding to other varieties of history in this self-conscious way, writers like Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Delarivier Manley, Daniel Defoe and John Evelyn were able to pioneer influential new techniques for representing their nation’s past.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-26
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9780719099243

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Introduction: English historiography at its 'lowest ebb'Part I: Memoir: Memoirs and the history of the individual1. Apostrophe: Colley Cibber’s Apology and the development of social history2. Analogy: John Evelyn’s Kalendarium and the public diary traditionPart II: Secret history: Secret histories as histories3. Narrative voices: Daniel Defoe’s Secret History of the White-Staff in dialogue4. Narrative Personae: Delarivier Manley’s Secret Memoirs and Manners and the modern chronicle Part III: Satire and panegyric: Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing5. Metonymy: Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem6. Metaphor: Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegoryPart IV: History reconsidered: Rethinking history at its 'lowest ebb' 7. Secret history and Roger North’s 'historical controversy'8. History with a 'design': satire and John Oldmixon’s History of England During the Reigns of the Royal House of StuartIndex