The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

Herausgeber: Brady, Andrea; Butterworth, Emily

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780415995405
• ISBN-10: 041599540X
• Artikelnr.: 27387209

Autorenporträt

Andrea Brady is Lecturer in early modern literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Emily Butterworth teaches sixteenth-century French literature and thought at King's College London. She is the author of Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France (Oxford, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Foreword: The History of the Future
1350-2000
Peter Burke Introduction
Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth 1. In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism
A. Wade Razzi 2. Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country
Richard Scholar 3. 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia
J.K. Barret 4. Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other
Brinda Charry 5. 'Provide for the Future
and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time
Andrew Hiscock 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil
Michael Harrigan 7. Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort
Henry IV Parts One and Two and All's Well That Ends Well
Nina Taunton 8. The Future Now: Chance
Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon
A. P. Langman 9. Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris
Phillip John Usher 10. Astrology
Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)
Peter J. Forshaw 11. Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications
Hugh Roberts 12. 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy
Rob Iliffe Notes on Contributors Index