Literature as History / History as Literature

Fact and Fiction in Medieval to Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Buch | Softcover

2007
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-56879-8 (ISBN)

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This volume assembles critical essays on the relationship between historiography and fiction from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century and beyond. The contributions stem from distinguished scholars, junior faculty and Ph.D.-students, and thus represent a wide range of critical approaches and interests. All of the essays in the book, however, reflect recent debates about the tenacity of postmodernist epistemologies and the attendant revaluation of positivistic methodologies.

The Author: Sonja Fielitz is Professor of English Literature at the University of Marburg. She studied English, Latin, and German at the University of Munich. Her research and teaching focuses mainly on Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature as well as eighteenth-century British literature, modern drama, and children’s literature. She has taught English Literature also at the Universities of Göttingen and Münster.

lt;i>Contents: Sonja Fielitz: Introduction: Putting 'Theorrhoea' to the (Historical) Test - Erich Poppe: Literature as History / History as Literature: A View from Medieval Ireland - Monika Rener: The King Can Do Wrong: William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum - Wolfram R. Keller/Astrid Lohöfer/Christian Pauls: What's at Stake: Jeanne d'Arc between Historiography and Propaganda - Paul J.C.M. Franssen: The Life and Opinions of William Shakespeare, Gentleman: Biography between Fact and Fiction - Paul Edmondson: Richard II in History and Performance - Frauke Reitemeier: «Lesser than Macbeth, and greater»: A 'Stuart Myth' Case Study - Marga Munkelt/Beatrix Busse: Aspects of Governance in Shakespeare's: Edward the Third: The Quest for Personal and Political Identity - Claudia Küster: Constructing Royal Identity in Tudor and Early Stuart Drama: Two Case Studies in Panegyric Literature - Martin Kuester: Of Israelites, Trojans, and Druids: Milton's History of Britain between Mythology, Republican Historiography, and Postmodern Historiographic Metafiction - Claudia Fenske: Dryden's The Conquest of Granada: Facts and Fiction - Patricia Plummer: Cruel Sultans, Fair Captives: The Influence of Richard Knolles's Generall Historie of the Turkes (1603) on Eighteenth-Century English Drama - Jessika Wichner: Frederick Pilon's Farce Aerostation, or, The Templar's Stratagem: The Balloon Conquers the Skies and Literature - Sonja Fielitz: Factual and Fictional Newtons: The Construction of a British National Hero.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	Kulturelle Identitäten. Studien zur Entwicklung der europäischen Kulturen der Neuzeit / Cultural Identities. Studies in Early Modern and Modern European Cultures ; 1
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	British • Century • Dichtung • Drama • eighteenth • Englisch • FACT • Fiction • Fielitz • Fiktion • Geschichte 1000-1800 • Hardcover, Softcover / Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • HC/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft • Historiographie • History • Kongress • Literatur • Literature • Medieval • Prosa • Sonja • Wahrheit
ISBN-10	3-631-56879-7 / 3631568797
ISBN-13	978-3-631-56879-8 / 9783631568798
Zustand	Neuware