The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

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Hardcover | 18 March 2003

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In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers reworked older historical schemes to suit their own needs, turning to the ages of Petrarch and Poliziano, Erasmus and Scaliger, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Queen Elizabeth to define their culture in contrast to the preceding age. They derived a powerful sense of modernity from the comparison, which proved essential to the constitution of a national character. This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.

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'An original and major contribution to the reader's understanding of eighteenth-century cultural identity.' The New Rambler

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Preface
Note on the texts and citation
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic
Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age
Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians
The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability
The ground-work of stile: language and national identity
Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress
The last age: Renaissance lost
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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