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Literature as history-history as literature : fact and fiction in medieval to eighteenth-century British literature / Sonja Fielitz (ed.) ; with the assisatance of Wolfram R. Keller.

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Literature as history-history as literature : fact and fiction in medieval to eighteenth-century British literature / Sonja Fielitz (ed.) ; with the assisatance of Wolfram R. Keller.
Publication
Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Fielitz, Sonja.
  • Keller, Wolfram R.
Description
viii, 214 p.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Kulturelle Identitäten, 1863-219X ; Bd. 1
Uniform Title
Kulturelle Identitäten v. 1.
Alternative Title
Fact and fiction in medieval to eighteenth-century British literature
Subject
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Congresses
  • English literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Historiography > Great Britain
  • Historiography > Great Britain > Congresses
  • Literature and history > Congresses
  • Literature and history
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Proceedings of a conference held at Marburg, Germany from 19th to 21st Jan., 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The middle ages : Literature as history / history as literature: a view from medieval Ireland / Erich Poppe -- The king can do wrong: William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum / Monika Rener -- What's at stake: Jeanne d'Arc between historiography and propaganda / Wolfram R. Keller, Astrid Lohöfer, Christian Pauls. Shakespeare : The life and opinions of William Shakespeare, gentleman: biography between fact and fiction / Paul J.C.M. Franssen -- Richard II in history and performance / Paul Edmondson -- "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater": a 'Stuart myth' case study / Frauke Reitemeier -- Aspects of governance in Shakespeare's Edward the third: the quest for personal and political identity / Marga Munkelt, Beatrix Busse. The early modern period, excluding Shakespeare : Constructing royal identity in Tudor and early Stuart drama: two case studies in panegyric literature / Claudia Küster -- Of Israelites, Trojans, and Druids: Milton's History of Britain between mythology, Republican historiography, and postmodern historiographic metafiction / Martin Kuester -- Dryden's The conquest of Granada: facts and fiction / Claudia Fenski. The eighteenth century and beyond : Cruel sultans, fair captives: the influence of Richard Knolles's Generall historie of the Turkes (1603) on eighteenth-century English drama / Patricia Plummer -- Frederick Pilon's farce Aerostation, or the templar's stratagem: the balloon conquers the skies and literature / Jessika Wichner -- Factional and fictional newton: the construction of a British national hero / Sonja Fielitz.
ISBN
9783631568798 (pbk.)
OCLC
253204576
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library