Title: In Defiance of Time
Description: 'In Defiance of Time' contends that the antiquarian project integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser Camden, Drayton, and Selden.
Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, History in literature, National characteristics, English, in literature, English literature, Humanism in literature, History and criticism, Social life and customs