Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the texts and citation
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic
- 2 Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age
- 3 Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians
- 4 The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability
- 5 The ground-work of stile: language and national identity
- 6 Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress
- 7 The last age: Renaissance lost
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on the texts and citation
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic
- 2 Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age
- 3 Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians
- 4 The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability
- 5 The ground-work of stile: language and national identity
- 6 Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress
- 7 The last age: Renaissance lost
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002