The age of Elizabeth in the age of Johnson / Jack Lynch.

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Lynch, Jack (John T.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511061501
9780511061509
9780511055171
051105517X
0521819075
9780521819077
0511121059
9780511121050
9780511484377
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9780511069963
0511069960
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9781280162459
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9781107126091
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0511330103
9780511330100

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Age of Elizabeth in the age of Johnson.DDC classification:

942.5/5/072041 22

LOC classification:

DA355 .L96 2003eb

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15.70
18.05

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Contents:

1. Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic -- 2. Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age -- 3. Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians -- 4. The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability -- 5. The ground-work of stile: language and national identity -- 6. Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress -- 7. The last age: Renaissance lost.

Review: "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. 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 age of Petrarch and Poliziano, Erasmus and Scaliger, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Queen Elizabeth to define their culture in contrast to the preceding age.Summary: 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."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-218) and index.

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"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. 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 age 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."--Jacket.

English.

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