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The uses of the future in early modern Europe / edited by Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth ; with a foreword by Peter Burke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12.
- Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- French literature--16th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Future, The, in literature.
- Literature and society--Europe--History.
- Literature and society.
- Renaissance.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Contents:
- In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi
- Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar
- 'My promise sent unto myself': futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret
- Turkish futures: prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry
- 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock
- France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan
- Planning ahead: a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton
- The future now: chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman
- Prophetic architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher
- Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw
- Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts
- 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations': the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415995405
- 041599540X
- OCLC:
- 311758766
- Online:
- Publisher description
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