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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
