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  1. The uses of the future in early modern Europe
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

    This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it... more

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    This collection of essays examines the idea of the future in early modern European literature, politics, religion, science, and social life. Investigating how both elite and popular writers represented their access to or control over the future, it proposes new insights into one of the defining characteristics of modernity

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 041599540X; 9780203864159; 0203864158; 9780415995405; 9781135191962; 9781282376809
    RVK Categories: HI 1161
    Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12
    Subjects: French literature; English literature; Renaissance; Future in literature; Literature and society
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xx, 242 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000; Introduction; 1 In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism; 2 Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country; 3 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia; 4 Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other; 5 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time

    6 France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil7 Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and All's Well That Ends Well; 8 The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon; 9 Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris; 10 Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639); 11 Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications

    12 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural PhilosophyContributors; Index