Epic, epitome, and the early modern historical imagination
By: by Chloe Wheatley
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780754669760; 9780754697923
Subjects: History in literature; Literature and history; English poetry; History and criticism; English Epic poetry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Early modern epitome culture: habits of study, printed objects, history's quintessence; title: Stow's civil summaries; title: Abridging the infinite chronicle: Spenser and the role of the poet-historical; title: Du Bartas in epitome; title: Cowley, Milton, and the histories of epic; title: Bibliography.