The material past in England, 1660-1780
By: Barrett Kalter
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611483789; 9781611483796
Subjects: Literature and history; English literature; Time in literature; Chronology in literature; History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The time bound and the modern antique; title: The Cob-web law and the Fundamental law: history, chronology and poetic license; title: Chaucer ancient and modern: standardization, modernization, and the eighteenth-century reception of the Canterbury Tales; title: DIY Gothic: Thomas Gray and the Medieval revival; title: Horace Walpole's fugitive pieces: collecting and ephemerality.