Imagining early modern histories / / edited by Allison Kavey and Elizabeth Ketner

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 809/.933582
• Soggetto topico: Prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Literature and society - History - 16th century; Literature and history - History - 17th century; Literature and history - History - 16th century; Literature and society - History - 17th century; Imagination - History - 16th century; Imagination - History - 17th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KaveyAllison <1977-> KetnerElizabeth
• Note generali: First published 2016 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Histories written and enacted -- pt. II. Histories created and assigned -- pt. III. Fictions histories -- pt. IV. Fictions of the self and the state : gender and innocence.
• Sommario/riassunto: Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining early modern histories
• ISBN: 1-315-56272-3; 1-134-80390-7; 1-4724-6518-0; 1-4724-6519-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910467598303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II