LEADER 04142nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910788307303321 005 20211008220400.0 010 $a0-8122-0779-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207798 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060340 035 $a(OCoLC)859162339 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748406 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949510 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11597100 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949510 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997348 035 $a(PQKB)11405915 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24645 035 $a(DE-B1597)449691 035 $a(OCoLC)1024009081 035 $a(OCoLC)979577220 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442054 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748406 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682446 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442054 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060340 100 $a20120806d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrue relations$b[electronic resource] $ereading, literature, and evidence in seventeenth-century England /$fFrances E. Dolan 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51164-0 311 0 $a0-8122-4485-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Spelling --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Crises of Evidence --$tChapter 1. True and Perfect Relations --$tChapter 2. Sham Stories and Credible Relations --$tChapter 3. A True and Faithful Account? --$tPart II. Genres of Evidence --$tChapter 4. First- Person Relations --$tChapter 5. The Rule of Relation --$tChapter 6. Relational Truths --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration or experiment. Contemporaries relied on such accounts for access to information even as they distrusted them; scholars today share both their dependency and their doubt. What we take as evidence, Frances E. Dolan argues, often raises more questions than it answers. Although historians have tracked dramatic changes in evidentiary standards and practices in the period, these changes did not solve the problem of how to interpret true relations or ease the reliance on them. The burden remains on readers. Dolan connects early modern debates about textual evidence to recent discussions of the value of seventeenth-century texts as historical evidence. Then as now, she contends, literary techniques of analysis have proven central to staking and assessing truth claims. She addresses the kinds of texts that circulated about three traumatic events-the Gunpowder Plot, witchcraft prosecutions, and the London Fire-and looks at legal depositions, advice literature, and plays as genres of evidence that hover in a space between fact and fiction. Even as doubts linger about their documentary and literary value, scholars rely heavily on them. Confronting and exploring these doubts, Dolan makes a case for owning up to our agency in crafting true relations among the textual fragments that survive. 606 $aHistory$xMethodology 606 $aReading$xSocial aspects 606 $aTruth$xSocial aspects 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yStuarts, 1603-1714$xHistoriography 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aHistory$xMethodology. 615 0$aReading$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTruth$xSocial aspects. 676 $a941.061 700 $aDolan$b Frances E$g(Frances Elizabeth),$f1960-$01030478 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788307303321 996 $aTrue relations$93690359 997 $aUNINA