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Author:

Kalter, Barrett.

Title:

Modern antiques : the material past in England, 1660-1780 / Barrett Kalter.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Literature and history--England.
Chronology in literature.
Time in literature.
English literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the time bound and the modern antique -- The cobweb-law and the fundamental law : history, chronology and poetic license -- Chaucer ancient and modern: standardization, modernization, and the eighteenth-century reception of The Canterbury tales -- DIY Gothic : Thomas Gray and the Medieval revival -- Horace Walpole's fugitive pieces : collecting and ephemerality.

Series:

Transits : literature, thought & culture

ISBN:

1611483794 (electronic)
9781611483796 (electronic)
1611483786 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611483789 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)729344056

LCCN:

2011035731

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)