Historical literatures : writing about the past in England, 1660-1740 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gallagher, Noelle
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	English literature > 17th century > History and criticism. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

1. Memoir. Memoirs and the history of the individual ; Apostrophe : Colley Cibber's Apology and the development of social history ; Analogy : John Evelyn's Kalendarium and the public diary tradition
2. Secret history. Secret histories as histories ; Narrative voices : Daniel Defoe's Secret History of the White-staff in dialogue ; Narrative personae : Delarivier Manley's Secret Memoirs and Manners and the modern chronicle
3. Satire and panegyric. Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing ; Metonymy : Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem ; Metaphor : John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory
4. History reconsidered. Rethinking history at its 'lowest ebb' ; Secret history and Roger North's 'historical controversy' ; History with a 'design' : satire and John Oldmixon's History of England During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart.