Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Precept, example, and truth: Degory Wheare and the ars historica
- 3 Truth, lies, and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography
- 4 Thomas More and the English Renaissance: History and fiction in Utopia
- 5 Little Crosby and the horizons of early modern historical culture
- 6 Murder in Faversham: Holinshed's impertinent history
- 7 Foul, his wife, the mayor, and Foul's mare: The power of anecdote in Tudor historiography
- 8 Experience, truth, and natural history in early English gardening books
- 9 Thomas Hobbes's Machiavellian moments
- 10 The background of Hobbes's Behemoth
- 11 Leviathan, mythic history, and national historiography
- 12 Protesting fiction, constructing history
- 13 Adam Smith and the history of private life: Social and sentimental narratives in eighteenth-century historiography
- 14 Contemplative heroes and Gibbon's historical imagination
- Contributors
- Index
- Titles in the series
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Precept, example, and truth: Degory Wheare and the ars historica
- 3 Truth, lies, and fiction in sixteenth-century Protestant historiography
- 4 Thomas More and the English Renaissance: History and fiction in Utopia
- 5 Little Crosby and the horizons of early modern historical culture
- 6 Murder in Faversham: Holinshed's impertinent history
- 7 Foul, his wife, the mayor, and Foul's mare: The power of anecdote in Tudor historiography
- 8 Experience, truth, and natural history in early English gardening books
- 9 Thomas Hobbes's Machiavellian moments
- 10 The background of Hobbes's Behemoth
- 11 Leviathan, mythic history, and national historiography
- 12 Protesting fiction, constructing history
- 13 Adam Smith and the history of private life: Social and sentimental narratives in eighteenth-century historiography
- 14 Contemplative heroes and Gibbon's historical imagination
- Contributors
- Index
- Titles in the series
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- The Historical Imagination in Early Modern BritainHistory, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500–1800, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997