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
Number of pages: 242
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
Description: This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity.--
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.