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)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 13, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780521590693
Subjects: British & Irish history; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain; Historiography; Tudors, 1485-1603; History - General History; History and criticism; History: World; British Isles; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; Great Britain--History--Tudors, 1485-1603--Historiography; History / Great Britain; 17th century; Literature and history; 16th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History
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.