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9780203864159

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203864159

  • ISBN10:

    0203864158

  • Copyright: 2009-11-06
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000
Introduction
In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism
Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country
'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia
Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other
'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time
France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil
Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts One and Two and All's Well That Ends Well
The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon
Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'AubignÉ in Paris
Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)
Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications
'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy
Notes on Contributors
Index
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