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" In defiance of time : "
Angus Vine
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BL
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624365
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Vine, Angus Edmund.
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In defiance of time : : antiquarian writing in early modern England /\ Angus Vine
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1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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0191585076 (electronic bk.)
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: 0199566194 (cloth)
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: 9780191585074 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780199566198 (cloth)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-232) and index
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Material beginnings : John Leland, John Twyne, John Stow -- Origins and names : etymology and the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries -- Restoring Britain : courtesy and collaboration in Camden's Britannia -- Monuments and megaliths : from Stonehenge to Stonage -- A peripatetic education : antiquarian travellers and the apodemic arts -- Antiquarian readers : the case of Drayton and Selden
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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. Offers readings of authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
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History in literature.
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Humanism in literature.
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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820.9/35809/031
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PR411.V56 2010
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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