Historical literatures : writing about the past in Engand, 1660-1740 / Noelle Gallagher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Memoir. Memoirs and the history of the individual ; Apostrophe : Colley Cibber's Apology and the development of social history ; Analogy : John Evelyn's Kalendarium and the public diary tradition -- 2. Secret history. Secret histories as histories ; Narrative voices : Daniel Defoe's Secret History of the White-staff in dialogue ; Narrative personae : Delarivier Manley's Secret Memoirs and Manners and the modern chronicle -- 3. Satire and panegyric. Satire and panegyric as forms of historical writing ; Metonymy : Edmund Waller, Andrew Marvell, and the advice-to-a-painter poem ; Metaphor : John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and historical allegory -- 4. History reconsidered. Rethinking history at its 'lowest ebb' ; Secret history and Roger North's 'historical controversy' ; History with a 'design' : satire and John Oldmixon's History of England During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart.

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