The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain : History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500–1800

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Some of the most distinguished historians and literary scholars in the English-speaking world explore the overlap, interplay, and interaction between history and fiction in British writing from the Tudor period to the Enlightenment, with the primary focus on writers such as Thomas More, John Foxe, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon.