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Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form (Hardcover)
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Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form is the first major
evaluation from a literary point of view of the writings of Edward
Hyde, the first Earl of Clarendon and the most important English
historiographer of the seventeenth century.As an early reformer in
the Long Parliament, as an adviser to Charles I and Charles II, as
the major architect of the Restoration on the Royalist side, and as
Lord Chancellor of England from 1660 to 1667, Clarendon played a
crucial role in determining the course of English history during
and after the tumultuous years of the civil wars. As a historian
and a literary stylist, he produced the History of the Rebellion,
generally regarded as the greatest historical work written in
England during the seventeenth century.Martine Watson Brownley
evaluates Clarendon's literary abilities and achievements, focusing
on his prose style, narrative form, and thematic structure on
biographical influences on his writing; and on his literary
background and associations. She also places Clarendon in the
context of the development of English literary historiography
during the seventeenth century.Various political and literary
changes--for example, the antiquarian movement, the civil wars, and
alterations in English prose and narrative styles--made the
seventeenth century a particularly crucial era in the evolution of
an English historiography that would lead to historical works which
were also classics of literature.Brownley demonstrates that,
through his experiments in style and structure in the History of
the Rebellion, and particularly through the imaginative overview
which he evolved for and in his work, Clarendon made the most
significant advances in English literary historiography before the
late eighteenth-century triumvirate of Gibbon, Robertson, and
Hume.Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form will be valuable
to scholars interested in historiography, prose and narrative
style, and seventeenth-century literature and history.
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