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. Ed(S): Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily - The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe - 9780415995405 - V9780415995405
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The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

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Description for The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe hardcover. A collection of essays that examines the idea of future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes fresh insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Editor(s): Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily. Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3J; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and ... Read more

With a foreword by Peter Burke.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415995405
SKU
V9780415995405
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About . Ed(S): Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily
Andrea Brady is Lecturer in early modern literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Emily Butterworth teaches sixteenth-century French literature and thought at King’s College London. She is the author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France (Oxford, 2006). ... Read more

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