Epic, Epitome, and the Early Modern Historical Imagination
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Author_Chloe Wheatley
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Bart Van Es
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Briton Moniments
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century
chronicle
chronicle summaries
civil war historiography
Cowley's Davideis
Cowley's Poem
Cowley’s Davideis
Cowley’s Poem
Degory Wheare
Divine Weeks
Du Bartas
dynastic
Dynastic Chronicle
Early English Books Online
early modern epitome culture studies
early modern literature
Edward III
Epitome Culture
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Faerie Queene
Guillaume De Salluste
Guillaume De Saluste
historical abridgement
Historical Interpolations
john
journal
Lot's Wife
Lot’s Wife
Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
National Biography
poetic historiography
Rich Good
sacred epic analysis
Sieur Du Bartas
Sir Walter Raleigh's History
Sir Walter Raleigh’s History
sixteenth
stow
Sylvester's Translation
Sylvester’s Translation
Thomas Blundeville
van
William Lisle
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- ISBN 9781138262263
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In early modern England, epitomes-texts promising to pare down, abridge, or sum up the essence of their authoritative sources-provided readers with key historical knowledge without the bulk, expense, or time commitment demanded by greater volumes. Epic poets in turn addressed the habits of reading and thinking that, for better and for worse, were popularized by the publication of predigested works. Analyzing popular texts such as chronicle summaries, abridgements of sacred epic, and abstracts of civil war debate, Chloe Wheatley charts the efflorescence of a lively early modern epitome culture, and demonstrates its impact upon Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Abraham Cowley's Davideis, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Clearly and elegantly written, this new study presents fresh insight into how poets adapted an important epic convention-the representation of the hero's confrontation with summaries of past and future-to reflect contemporary trends in early modern history writing.
Chloe Wheatley is an Associate Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, USA.
