Writing from History
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, US, 1990
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Writing from History
- Author
- Timothy Hampton
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press, US
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801424607
- ISBN 13
- 9780801424601
- Item weight
- 907 grams
A cornerstone of humanist ideology and pedagogy, the exemplary figure embodied the authority of history while providing readers a model for political and moral action. Hampton redefines the humanist concern with imitating the past as a problem of politics and elucidates the relationship between the literary representation of exemplarity and the political and ideological struggles of the late Renaissance. He demonstrates that the major authors of the period, from Erasmus and Machiavelli to Shakespeare, Montaigne, Tasso and Cervantes, display a profound anxiety about the meaning and function of exemplary figures -- and hence about the value of history itself as a guide for life. Through discussions of epic, tragedy, the essay, and the novel, Hampton traces the changing function of exemplarity for aristocratic ideology, reflecting on its role in the evolution of literary genres, in the representation of the body, and in the figuration of the self. From the collapse of humanist traditions of exemplarity in the late Renaissance, Hampton argues, new techniques emerge for defining the relationship between literature and the political world and for representing the self in history and society--techniques that map out the very terrain of modernity.
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