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Imagining Early Modern Histories (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Imagining Early Modern Histories (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this
volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions
fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of
versions of and debates about history during that period.
Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and
England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of
different approaches to understand the relationship between
history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They
analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional
texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible
to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape
historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and
accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally
or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the
already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and
ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough
consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It
also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing
a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in
forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
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