The uses of the future in early modern Europe
The uses of the future in early modern Europe
About this book
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.--
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- OL16623505W
Subjects
French literatureRenaissanceEnglish literatureLiterature and societyHistory and criticismFuture, The, in literatureHistoryEnglish literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700French literature, history and criticism, 16th centuryLITERARY CRITICISMEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshEarly modernFuture in literatureFrench literature, history and criticism