{"product_id":"the-historical-imagination-in-early-modern-britain-history-rhetoric-and-fiction-1500-1800-hardback-9780521590693","title":"The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain; History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500–1800 (Hardback) 9780521590693","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500–1800\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDistinguished historians and literary scholars explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonald R. Kelley (Edited by), David Harris Sacks (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521590693, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 September 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.695 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...this collection contains much that is new and even surprising, which makes it a welcome addition to the literature on the early modern historical imagination.\"   Timothy Lang, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fictional aspects of history, and the historical aspects of fiction, in prose narratives of many sorts. The interests and inquiries of these learned, imaginative, and venturesome scholars cross at many points, casting significant light on and offering numerous insights into the problematic and interdisciplinary areas where 'history' and 'story' meet, interact, and sometimes compete. Despite the theoretical questions posed, the discussions primarily focus on concrete works, including those of Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction Donald Kelley and David Harris Sacks\u003cbr\u003e 2. Example and truth: Deggory Wheare and the ars historica J. H. M. Salmon\u003cbr\u003e 3. Truth, lies and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography Patrick Collinson\u003cbr\u003e 4. Thomas More and the English Renaissance: history and fiction in Utopia Joseph Levine\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ancestral and antiquarian: Little Crosby and early modern historical culture Daniel Woolf\u003cbr\u003e 6. Murder in Faversham: Holinshed's impertinent history Richard Helgerson\u003cbr\u003e 7. Foul, his Wife, the Mayor, and Foul's Mare: anecdote in Tudor historiography Annabel Patterson\u003cbr\u003e 8. Thomas Hobbes' Machiavellian moments David Wooton\u003cbr\u003e 9. The background of Hobbes' Behemoth Fritz Levy\u003cbr\u003e 10. Leviathan, mythic history, and natural historiography Patricia Springborg\u003cbr\u003e 11. Adam Smith and the history of private life Mark Phillips\u003cbr\u003e 12. Protesting fiction, constructing history Paul Hunter\u003cbr\u003e 13. Contemplative heroes and Gibbon's historical imagination Patricia Craddock\u003cbr\u003e 14. Experience, truth, and natural history in early English gardening books Rebecca Bushnell.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46066023334168,"sku":"9780521590693","price":91.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521590693i.jpg?v=1691408918","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-historical-imagination-in-early-modern-britain-history-rhetoric-and-fiction-1500-1800-hardback-9780521590693","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}