Preface Note on the texts and citation List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Struggling to emerge from barbarity: historiography and the idea of the classic 2. Learning's triumph: historicism and the spirit of the age 3. Call Britannia's glories back to view: Tudor history and Hanoverian historians 4. The rage of Reformation: religious controversy and political stability 5. The ground-work of stile: language and national identity 6. Studied barbarity: Jonson, Spenser, and the idea of progress 7. The last age: Renaissance lost Notes Bibliography Index.
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