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BL
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962807
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b717177
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The uses of the future in early modern Europe /\ edited by Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth ; with a foreword by Peter Burke.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2010.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;; 12
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xx, 242 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0203864158
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: 041599540X
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: 9780203864159
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: 9780415995405
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar -- 'My promise sent unto myself': futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret -- Turkish futures: prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry -- 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock -- France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan -- Planning ahead: a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton -- The future now: chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman -- Prophetic architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher -- Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw -- Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts -- 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations': the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.
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| Abstract
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This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity.--
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English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
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French literature-- 16th century-- History and criticism.
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Future, The, in literature.
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Literature and society-- Europe-- History.
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Renaissance.
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Engelsk litteratur.
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English literature-- Early modern.
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Fransk litteratur.
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French literature.
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Future, The, in literature.
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Literature and society.
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Litteratur och samhälle.
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Littérature anglaise-- 1500-1800-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature française-- 1500-1800-- Histoire et critique.
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Renaissance.
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Renässansen.
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Literatur.
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Zukunft (Motiv)
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Englisch.
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Europe.
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Französisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/003
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| LC Classification
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PR421.U84 2010
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I500.63clc
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| Added Entry
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Brady, Andrea,1974-
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Butterworth, Emily.
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