Historical literatures : writing about the past in England, 1660-1740 /
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Author / Creator: | Gallagher, Noelle. |
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Imprint: | Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
Description: | xx, 252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9048159 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: English historiography at its 'lowest ebb'
- I. Memoir
- Memoirs and the history of the individual
- 1. Apostrophe: Colley Cibber's Apology and the development of social history
- 2. Analogy: John Evelyn's Kalendarium and the public diary tradition
- II. Secret history
- Secret histories as histories
- 3. Narrative voices: Daniel Defoe's Secret History of the White-Staff in dialogue
- 4. Narrative personae: Delarivier Manley's Secret Memoirs and Manners and the modern chronicle
- III. Satire and panegyric
- Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing
- 5. Metonymy: Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem
- 6. Metaphor: John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory
- IV. History reconsidered
- Rethinking history at its 'lowest ebb'
- 7. Secret history and Roger North's 'historical controversy'
- 8. History with a 'design: satire and John Oldmixon's History of England During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index