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History and the early English novel: matters of fact from Bacon to Defoe
Robert Mayer-
Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page x)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Baconian historiography: the countours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England (page 18)
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2 "Idle Trash" or "Reliques of Somthing True"?: the fate of Brut and Arthur and the power of tradition (page 34)
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3 The History of Myddle: memory, history, and power (page 54)
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4 Lifewriting and historiorgraphy, fiction and fact: Baxter, Clarendon, and Hutchinson on the English Civil War (page 75)
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5 The secret history of the last Stuart kings (page 94)
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6 "Knowing strange things": historical discourse in the century before Robinson Crusoe (page 113)
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7 "History" before Defoe: Nashe, Deloney, Behn, Manley (page 141)
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8 Defoe's historical practice: from "The Ages Humble Servant" to Major Alexander Ramkins (page 158)
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9 "Facts that are form'd to touch the mind": Defoe's narratives as forms of historical discourse (page 181)
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10 From history to the novel: the reception of Defoe (page 207)
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Conclusion (page 227)
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Index (page 240)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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A | 30.3 (Autumn 1998): 490-492 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4053307 |
RES | 50.197 (Feb. 1999): 105-107 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/517785 |
MP | 98.1 (Aug. 2000): 73-75 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/439309 |
SCJ | 29.3 (Autumn 1998): 821-823 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2543709 |
YES | 30 (2000): 287-289 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3509275 |
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Published: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780511089763 (ebook)
- 9780521604475 (paper)
- 9780521563772 (hardcover)