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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• French literature—16th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Future, The, in literature [Browse]
• Literature and society—Europe—History [Browse]
• Renaissance [Browse]

Related name

• Brady, Andrea, 1974- [Browse]
• Butterworth, Emily [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 12 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi
• Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar
• 'My promise sent unto myself': futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret
• Turkish futures: prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry
• 'Provide for the future, and times succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock
• France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan
• Planning ahead: a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton
• The future now: chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman
• Prophetic architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher
• Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw
• Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts
• 'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations': the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.

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ISBN

• 9780415995405
• 041599540X

LCCN

2009021886

OCLC

311758766

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