 | True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- Criticism textual; Law and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Evidence -- History -- 17th century; Knowledge Theory of in literature; Reality in literature; Truth in literature; England --; Examining 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. Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is also author of Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy, available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 and Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture. |
