Gallagher Historical literatures

Writing about the past in England, 1660–1740
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3016-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early-eighteenth century English historical writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallagher, Noelle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction: English historiography at its “lowest ebb”
Part I. Memoir: Memoirs and the history of the individual
1. Apostrophe: Colley Cibber’s Apology and the development of social history
2. Analogy: John Evelyn’s Kalendarium and the public diary tradition
Part II. Secret history: Secret histories as histories
3. Narrative voices: Daniel Defoe’s Secret History of the White-Staff in dialogue
4. 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 writing
5. Metonymy: Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem
6. Metaphor: Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory
Part 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 Stuart
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Gallagher Noelle:
Noelle Gallagher is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century British Literature at the University of ManchesterNoelle Gallagher is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Manchester.