Imagining Early Modern Histories.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781472465191
- 809.933582
- PN3481 .I434 2016
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Imagining Early Modern Histories -- PART I HISTORIES WRITEN AND ENACTED -- 1 Shouting Distance: Local History and a Global Empire in Lope de Vega's Famosa comedia del nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colón -- 2 Enclosure and the Spatialization of History in Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" -- 3 From Antimasque to Execution: Revising History Through Performance -- PART II HISTORIES CREATED AND ASSIGNED -- 4 "I'll to my book": The Legacy of the Corpus Hermeticum in Renaissance Magic -- 5 The Imagined Among the Real: The Country of Women in Traditional and Early Modern Chinese Geographical Accounts and Maps -- 6 Looking for the Unknown Asia: The Asian Mystique in Early Modern European Textual History -- PART III FICTIONS HISTORIES -- 7 "Secretarie now, but to the dead": Samuel Daniel and the Just Aesthetics of History -- 8 "The gap / That we shall make in time": Emblematics and the Queer Drive of History in Cymbeline -- 9 "A Fable Like a Historie": Lady Mary Wroth's "Heathen Fiction" -- PART IV FICTIONS OF THE SELF AND THE STATE: GENDER AND INNOCENCE -- 10 Fictions and Lies: Accusations of Spousal Homicide and Adultery in France -- 11 Speaking from the Edges: Toward a Feminine Historiography in Story XXI of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron -- 12 Fiction and Biography, Self and Identity in Antonio di Tuccio Manetti's Il grasso legnaiuolo -- Index.
By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a long perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
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