Historical literatures : writing about the past in England, 1660-1740 / Noelle Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, Noelle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--17th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 252 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Highlighting the wide variety of historical works being printed and read in England between the years of 1660 and 1740, 'Historical Literatures' demonstrates that many of the genres that we now view primarily as literary - verse satire and panegyric, memoir, scandal, and chronicle - were also being used to represent historical phenomena.

Contents:

1. Memoir. Memoirs and the history of the individual ; Apostrophe : Colley Cibber's Apology and the development of social history ; Analogy : John Evelyn's Kalendarium and the public diary tradition

2. Secret history. Secret histories as histories ; Narrative voices : Daniel Defoe's Secret History of the White-staff in dialogue ; Narrative personae : Delarivier Manley's Secret Memoirs and Manners and the modern chronicle

3. Satire and panegyric. Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing ; Metonymy : Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem ; Metaphor : John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory

4. History reconsidered. Rethinking history at its 'lowest ebb' ; Secret history and Roger North's 'historical controversy' ; History with a 'design' : satire and John Oldmixon's History of England during the reigns of the Royal House of Stuart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 26, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-3016-5

OCLC:

1085613362