Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Baconian historiography: the contours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England
- 2 “Idle Trash” or “Reliques of Somthing True”?: the fate of Brut 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 Hutchinson on the English Civil War
- 5 The secret history of the last Stuart kings
- 6 “Knowing strange things”: 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
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Baconian historiography: the contours of historical discourse in seventeenth-century England
- 2 “Idle Trash” or “Reliques of Somthing True”?: the fate of Brut 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 Hutchinson on the English Civil War
- 5 The secret history of the last Stuart kings
- 6 “Knowing strange things”: 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
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND THOUGHT
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- History and the Early English NovelMatters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997