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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 August 2010
      13 September 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511721052
      9780521590693
      9780521521239
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511721052
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.695kg, 392 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (236 x 160 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.693kg, 392 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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    Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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    This collection of essays by some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explores the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British imaginative and historical writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment. The historians discuss the questions of truth, fiction, and the contours of early modern historical culture, while the literary scholars consider some of the fictional aspects of history, and the historical aspects of fiction, in prose narratives of many sorts. The interests and inquiries of these learned, imaginative, and venturesome scholars cross at many points, casting significant light on and offering numerous insights into the problematic and interdisciplinary areas where 'history' and 'story' meet, interact, and sometimes compete. Despite the theoretical questions posed, the discussions primarily focus on concrete works, including those of Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon.

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    "The essays in The Historical Imagination in every instance bring to light elements of authorship that are worth pondering. Inherited notions are successfully challenged....the remarkable thing about the inception of this project: the singular good sense of bringing together a group of eminent writers to reassess criteria and conventions, particularly of historical authority, in a time of historiographical revolution. The editors are to be commended." William Rockett, 16th Century Jrnl

    "In this intelligent, engaging, and timely essay collection from the disciplines of both history and English, editors Donald R. Kelley and David Harris Sacks have compiled compelling pictures of the various relationships that exist between the fields of history and fiction in early modern Britain. In its detailed attention to the various representations of truth within imaginative writing, the collection represents a significant addition to the ever-growing study of early modern British culture, one that should be of great aid to scholars in the field and their students for some time." Gregory J. Underwood, History

    "...this collection contains much that is new and even surprising, which makes it a welcome addition to the literature on the early modern historical imagination." Timothy Lang, American Historical Review

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