In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden. INDICE: List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Note on text; Introduction; 1: Material Beginnings: John Leland, John Twyne, John Stow; 2: Origins and Names: Etymology and the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries; 3: Restoring Britain: Courtesy and Collaboration in Camden's Britannia; 4: Monuments and Megaliths: From Stonehenge to 'Stonage'; 5: A Peripatetic Education: Antiquarian Travellers and the Apodemic Arts; 6: Antiquarian Readers: The Case of Drayton and Selden; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956619-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés