The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
Subtitle: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 15001800 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Contributors: Donald R. Kelley (Editor); David Harris Sacks (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780521521239
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Historiography; Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; History; History: World; British Isles; Western Continental Europe; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Hi; Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Historiography; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: "History" and "story" are derived from the same root, and they have converged again in modern times, especially through the recognition of their common dependence on imagination.