The uses of the future in early modern Europe
By: edited by Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth.
Contributors: Brady, Andrea, 1974-; Butterworth, Emily.
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415995405
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; French literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Future in literature; Literature and society -- Europe -- History; Renaissance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi; title: Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar; title: "My promise sent unto myself": futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret; title: Turkish futures: prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry / "Provide for the future, and times succeeding": Walter Raleigh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock; title: France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan; title: Planning ahead: a future for old age in dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts one and two and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton; title: The future now: chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A. P. Langman; title: Prophetic architecture: Agrippa d'Aubign in Paris / Phillip John Usher; title: Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw; title: Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts; title: "Meteorologies and extravagant speculations": the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.