The uses of the future in early modern Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brady, Andrea, 1974-, Butterworth, Emily
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:	Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. French literature > 16th century > History and criticism. Future, The, in literature. Literature and society > Europe > History. Renaissance.
Online Access:	Publisher description

Table of Contents:

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.