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Imagining Culture - Essays in Early Modern History and Literature (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Imagining Culture - Essays in Early Modern History and Literature (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
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This book of original essays explores three important areas in
comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the
boundaries between history and fiction; women as writers and
subjects; and the connection between the early modern, modern and
postmodern.
New history and new literary studies look at innovative ways to see
past cultures in a new light. Traditional methods are used to new
ends and writers who are familiar within their cultures are
translated to other cultures. This study promotes an expanded
understanding of our cultural artifacts in a rapidly changing
present. It discusses English-speaking culture in the early modern
period in the context of other European cultures and relates Europe
to other parts of the world, most notably America.
After grounding the discussion of culture in history, identity,
dialogue as a genre that crosses the boundaries between philosophy
and fiction, the rhetoric of prefaces to historical collections,
cosmographies and histories that share something with the
techniques of literary and forensic rhetoric, the book proceeds to
discuss two central issues in cultural studies today: gender and
postmodernity. The final section of the book provides a general
assessment through early modern texts of modernity and
postmodernity.
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