The age of Elizabeth in the age of Johnson

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Author / Creator: Lynch, Jack
Formáid: Leictreonach ríomhLeabhar
Teanga:English
Imprint: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Rochtain Ar Líne:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
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Achoimre:In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers reworked older historical schemes to suit their own needs, turning to the ages of Petrarch and Poliziano, Erasmus and Scaliger, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Queen Elizabeth to define their culture in contrast to the preceding age. They derived a powerful sense of modernity from the comparison, which proved essential to the constitution of a national character. This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.
Bibleagrafaíocht:Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-218) and index.
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