Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form
Autor Martine Watson Brownleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 sep 1985
As an early reformer in the Long Parliament, as an adviser to Charles I and Charles II, as the major architect of the Restoration on the Royalist side, and as Lord Chancellor of England from 1660 to 1667, Clarendon played a crucial role in determining the course of English history during and after the tumultuous years of the civil wars. As a historian and a literary stylist, he produced the History of the Rebellion, generally regarded as the greatest historical work written in England during the seventeenth century.
Martine Watson Brownley evaluates Clarendon's literary abilities and achievements, focusing on his prose style, narrative form, and thematic structure on biographical influences on his writing; and on his literary background and associations. She also places Clarendon in the context of the development of English literary historiography during the seventeenth century.
Various political and literary changes--for example, the antiquarian movement, the civil wars, and alterations in English prose and narrative styles--made the seventeenth century a particularly crucial era in the evolution of an English historiography that would lead to historical works which were also classics of literature.
Brownley demonstrates that, through his experiments in style and structure in the History of the Rebellion, and particularly through the imaginative overview which he evolved for and in his work, Clarendon made the most significant advances in English literary historiography before the late eighteenth-century triumvirate of Gibbon, Robertson, and Hume.
Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form will be valuable to scholars interested in historiography, prose and narrative style, and seventeenth-century literature and history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812279887
ISBN-10: 0812279883
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Reprint 2016
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10: 0812279883
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Reprint 2016
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Notă biografică
Martine Watson Brownley is Goodrich C. White Professor of English, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, and Director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.