Title: Literature as history, history as literature :
Authors: Fielitz, Sonja.; Keller, Wolfram R.
Date: 2007
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Physical description: viii, 214 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: The middle ages : Literature as history / history as literature: a view from medieval Ireland / Erich Poppe -- The king can do wrong: William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum / Monika Rener -- What's at stake: Jeanne d'Arc between historiography and propaganda / Wolfram R. Keller, Astrid Lohöfer, Christian Pauls. Shakespeare : The life and opinions of William Shakespeare, gentleman: biography between fact and fiction / Paul J. C. M. Franssen -- Richard II in history and performance / Paul Edmondson -- "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater": a 'Stuart myth' case study / Frauke Reitemeier -- Aspects of governance in Shakespeare's Edward the third: the quest for personal and political identity / Marga Munkelt, Beatrix Busse. The early modern period, excluding Shakespeare : Constructing royal identity in Tudor and early Stuart drama: two case studies in panegyric literature / Claudia Küster -- Of Israelites, Trojans, and Druids: Milton's History of Britain between mythology, Republican historiography, and postmodern historiographic metafiction / Martin Kuester -- Dryden's The conquest of Granada: facts and fiction / Claudia Fenski. The eighteenth century and beyond : Cruel sultans, fair captives: the influence of Richard Knolles's Generall historie of the Turkes (1603) on eighteenth-century English drama / Patricia Plummer -- Frederick Pilon's farce Aerostation, or the templar's stratagem: the balloon conquers the skies and literature / Jessika Wichner -- Factional and fictional newton: the construction of a British national hero / Sonja Fielitz.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held at Marburg, Germany from 19th to 21st Jan., 2007.
Subject headings (LCSH): English literature--17th century--History and criticism.; English literature--18th century--History and criticism.; English literature--19th century--History and criticism.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; English literature--History and criticism--Congresses; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism--Congresses.; Historiography--Great Britain--Congresses.; Historiography--Great Britain.; Literature and history--Congresses.; Literature and history.