The uses of the future in early modern Europe
Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the p...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY [u.a.] : Routledge,
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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| Schlagworte: | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism Future, The, in literature Literature and society -- Europe -- History Renaissance |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke. Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000 -- Introduction -- 1 In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism -- 2 Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country -- 3 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia -- 4 Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other -- 5 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time -- 6 France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil -- 7 Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and All's Well That Ends Well -- 8 The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon -- 9 Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris -- 10 Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) -- 11 Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications -- 12 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy -- Contributors -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780203864159 0203864158 9780415995405 041599540X |