| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12 |
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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12.
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| Contents |
1. In pursuit of the millennia : Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- 2. Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 3. 'My promise sent unto myself' : futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- 4. Turkish futures : prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 5. 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding' : Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale : sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- 7. Planning ahead : a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- 8. The future now : chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- 9. Prophetic architecture : Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- 10. Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- 11. Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 12. 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations' : the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe |
| Summary |
Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and We |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Future, The, in literature.
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Literature and society -- Europe -- History
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Renaissance.
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Renaissance.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern
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French literature
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Future, The, in literature
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Literature and society
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Renaissance
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brady, Andrea, 1974-
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Butterworth, Emily.
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| LC no. |
2009021886 |
| ISBN |
9780415995405 |
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041599540X |
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9780203864159 |
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0203864158 |
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9786612376801 |
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6612376805 |
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9781135191962 |
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1135191964 |
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9781135191917 |
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1135191913 |
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9781135191955 |
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1135191956 |
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9781138878433 |
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113887843X |
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