The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put. He argues that scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics defined themselves in relation to "the last age" or "the age of Elizabeth". This interdisciplinary study is of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.

Preface

vi

Note on the texts and citation

x

List of abbreviations

xi

Introduction

1

(17)

Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic

18

(20)

Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age

38

(19)

Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians

57

(21)

The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability

78

(19)

The ground-work of stile: language and national identity

97

(23)

Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress

120

(23)

The last age: Renaissance lost

143

(22)

Notes

165

(33)

Bibliography

198

(21)

Index

219

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The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson

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