True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England

by Frances E. Dolan

In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration or experiment. Contemporaries relied on such accounts for access to information even as they distrusted them; scholars today share both their dependency and their doubt. What we take as evidence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244850
• ISBN13: 9780812244854
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"