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Title Imagining early modern histories / edited by Allison Kavey and Elizabeth Ketner
Published Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate, [2016]
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Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction Imagining Early Modern Histories -- Part I Histories Written and Enacted -- 1 Shouting Distance: Local History and a Global Empire in Lope de Vega's Famosa comedia del nuevomundo descubierto por Cristobal Colón -- 2 Enclosure and the Spatialization of History in Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" -- 3 From Antimasque to Execution: Revising History Through Performance -- Part II Histories Created and Assigned -- 4 "I'll to my book": The Legacy of the Corpus Hermeticum in Renaissance Magic -- 5 The Imagined Among the Real: The Country of Women in Traditional and Early Modern Chinese Geographical Accounts and Maps -- 6 Looking for the Unknown Asia: The Asian Mystique in Early Modern European Textual History -- Part III Fictions Histories -- 7 "Secretarie now, but to the dead": Samuel Daniel and the Just Aesthetics of History -- 8 "The gap / That we shall make in time": Emblematics and the Queer Drive of History in Cymbeline -- 9 "A Fable Like a Historie": Lady Mary Wroth's "Heathen Fiction" -- Part IV Fictions of the Self and the State: Gender and Innocence -- 10 Fictions and Lies: Accusations of Spousal Homicide and Adultery in France -- 11 Speaking from the Edges: Toward a Feminine Historiography in Story XXI of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron -- 12 Fiction and Biography, Self and Identity in Antonio di Tuccio Manetti's Il grasso legnaiuolo -- Index
Summary Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas abou
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 20, 2015)
Subject Prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Literature and history -- History -- 16th century
Literature and history -- History -- 17th century
Literature and society -- History -- 16th century
Literature and society -- History -- 17th century
Imagination -- History -- 16th century
Imagination -- History -- 17th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Imagination
Literature and history
Literature and society
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kavey, Allison, 1977- editor.
Ketner, Elizabeth, editor.
ISBN 9781472465184
1472465180