{"product_id":"true-relations-9780812244854","title":"True Relations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a richly provocative book packed with stimulating insights, a work from which every early modernist can learn. Dolan's subject is as much the methodology of historians as it is the mentalities of historical subjects. She is a reassuring guide to issues that have vexed historians for the last thirty years.\" * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[E]very scholar of early modern England ought to read this book. Dolan deftly cuts through the muddle that allows all of us, literary critics and historians, to acknowledge the limitations of our sources with one side of our mouths, while on the other side proceeding to read them however most suits our needs.\" * \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"At a time when the value of literature-and literary analysis-is a matter of public debate, True Relations is a carefully constructed and ultimately persuasive argument for the importance of literary critical methods.\" * \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A thoughtful and provocative essay on method as much as it is a set of readings of early modern texts. . . . Dolan's insistence that there are significant correspondences between the scholarly endeavours of historically minded critics (and critically minded historians) and the reading practices of their early modern subjects is a beguiling idea. \u003ci\u003eTrue Relations\u003c\/i\u003e is the kind of book that will make all its readers reflect on their own methods and responsibilities as practitioners of academic disciplines.\" * \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Frances Dolan exhibits a heightened literary, historiographical, and methodological selfconsciousness, and invites other scholars to share and enjoy it. \u003ci\u003eTrue Relations\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways historical actors in the early modern era presented information, in text or testimony, and how readers four centuries later render or interpret that material as evidence. It is concerned, suggestively and sometimes brilliantly, with the relatedness of relations, and the bases for supposing a story to be true.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of British Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTrue Relations\u003c\/i\u003e pairs a methodological inquiry with historical analysis of specific case histories connecting fact to fiction in the early modern period. No other book to date has traced the particular way that scholars of the early modern period devise a practice of reading once they affirm the axiom that the 'real' is constructed. Dolan offers an unusually lucid and crisp tour of the social stakes involved in reading strategies and evidentiary standards.\" * Wendy Wall, Northwestern University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Spelling\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. CRISES OF EVIDENCE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. True and Perfect Relations: Henry Garnet, Confessional Identity, and Figuration\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Sham Stories and Credible Relations: Witchcraft and Narrative Conventions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. A True and Faithful Account? The London Fire, Blame, and Partisan Proof\u003cbr\u003e PART II. GENRES OF EVIDENCE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. First-Person Relations: Reading Depositions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Rule of Relation: Domestic Advice Literature and Its Readers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Relational Truths: Dramatic Evidence, \u003ci\u003eAll Is True, and Double Falsehood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405721346391,"sku":"9780812244854","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812244854.jpg?v=1730493388","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/true-relations-9780812244854","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}