Introduction
1. Baconian historiography: the contours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England
2. 'Idle trash' or 'Reliques of something true'? the fate of Brute and Arthur and the power of tradition
3. The History of Myddle: memory, history, and power
4. Lifewriting and historiography, fiction and fact: Baxter, Clarendon, and Hutchingson on the English civil war
5. The secret history of the last Stuart kings
6. 'Knowing strange things': the historical discourse in the century before Robinson Crusoe
7. 'History' before Defoe: Nashe, Deloney, Behn, Manley
8. Defoe's historical practice: from 'The Ages Humble Servant' to Major Alexander Ramkins
9. 'Facts that are form'd to touch the mind': Defoe's narratives as forms of historical discourse
10. From history to the novel: the reception of Defoe
Conclusion
Index.

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History and the Early English Novel

Matters of Fact from Bacon to DefoeHerausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard

History and the Early English Novel

Matters of Fact from Bacon to DefoeHerausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard

Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe
Herausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard

Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe
Herausgeber: Erskine-Hill, Howard