The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

by Jack Lynch

• ISBN13: 9780521143974
• ISBN10: 0521143977
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. He argues that scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics defined themselves in relation to "the last age" or "the age of Elizabeth". This interdisciplinary study is of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.

Table of Contents

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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