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History and the early English novel: matters of fact from Bacon to Defoe

Robert Mayer
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page x)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Baconian historiography: the countours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England (page 18)
  • 2 "Idle Trash" or "Reliques of Somthing True"?: the fate of Brut and Arthur and the power of tradition (page 34)
  • 3 The History of Myddle: memory, history, and power (page 54)
  • 4 Lifewriting and historiorgraphy, fiction and fact: Baxter, Clarendon, and Hutchinson on the English Civil War (page 75)
  • 5 The secret history of the last Stuart kings (page 94)
  • 6 "Knowing strange things": historical discourse in the century before Robinson Crusoe (page 113)
  • 7 "History" before Defoe: Nashe, Deloney, Behn, Manley (page 141)
  • 8 Defoe's historical practice: from "The Ages Humble Servant" to Major Alexander Ramkins (page 158)
  • 9 "Facts that are form'd to touch the mind": Defoe's narratives as forms of historical discourse (page 181)
  • 10 From history to the novel: the reception of Defoe (page 207)
  • Conclusion (page 227)
  • Index (page 240)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
ISBN(s)
  • 9780511089763 (ebook)
  • 9780521604475 (paper)
  • 9780521563772 (hardcover)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Subject
  • Literature
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