Untold Futures : : Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England / / J. K. Barret.
In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret locates models for recovering the variety of futures imagined within some of our most foundational literature. These poems, plays, and prose fictions reveal how Renaissance writers embraced uncertain potential to think about their own present moment and their own plac...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Promising the Future: The Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia
- Chapter 2. The History of the Future: Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the Directions of Time
- Chapter 3. The Fiction of the Future: Dangerous Reading in Titus Andronicus
- Chapter 4. Shakespeare's Second Future: Anticipatory Nostalgia in Cymbeline
- Chapter 5. Imminent Futures: Absent Art and Improvised Rhyme in Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline
- Afterword: Circles of the Future: Memory or Monument in Paradise Lost
- Bibliography
- Index