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Author Kalter, Barrett

Title Modern Antiques : the Material Past in England, 1660-1780
Published Lanham : Bucknell University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Ch01. THE "COBWEB-LAW" AND THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW; Ch02. CHAUCER ANCIENT AND MODERN; Ch03. DIY GOTHIC; Ch04. HORACE WALPOLE'S FUGITIVE PIECES; CONCLUSION; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary Modern Antiques argues that the reinvention of the past was fundamental to the development of modernity in England during the long eighteenth century. Bringing together the fields of literary criticism, historiography, material culture studies, and book
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Subject British literature -- History and criticism
British literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bucknell University Press.
ISBN 9781611483796
1611483794
1283362457
9781283362450