The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

ISBN-13: 9780521819077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 240 str.

Jack Lynch

Opis

Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. He argues that scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics defined themselves in relation to "the last age" or "the age of Elizabeth." This interdisciplinary study is of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'An original and major contribution to the reader's understanding of eighteenth-century cultural identity.' The New Rambler

Spis treści

Preface; Note on the texts and citation; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic; 2. Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age; 3. Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians; 4. The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability; 5. The ground-work of stile: language and national identity; 6. Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress; 7. The last age: Renaissance lost; Notes; Bibliography; Index.