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"""Untold Futures is one of those rare books that will make an entire field view familiar material in a new and profound light. In prose that is at once agile and rigorous, J. K. Barret shrewdly reminds us that this period named the Renaissance is not just involved in the rediscovery of classical antiquity, but also in the effort to imagine possibilities for the future.""-Michael Schoenfeldt, John Knott Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan, author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England ""In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret provides a fluent account of a fascinating topic. The question of temporality and its relationship to Renaissance literature is compelling, and Barret writes engagingly, providing illuminating, supple, and sophisticated readings of a variety of texts.""-Jesse M. Lander, University of Notre Dame, author of Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England ""Untold Futures is marvelous, both erudite and clever, and also contains beautiful writing. It offers an important new perspective on early modern historiography. Diverging from nearly all other studies of Renaissance conceptions of time, J. K. Barret uncovers a persistent interest in the earthly future (with all of its uncertainties) in some of the most important texts in the canon of Renaissance literature.""-Jenny C. Mann, Cornell University, author of Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England"

Untold Futures is one of those rare books that will make an entire field view familiar material in a new and profound light. In prose that is at once agile and rigorous, J. K. Barret shrewdly reminds us that this period named the Renaissance is not just involved in the rediscovery of classical antiquity, but also in the effort to imagine possibilities for the future. -Michael Schoenfeldt, John Knott Professor of English Literature, University of Michigan, author of Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England In Untold Futures, J. K. Barret provides a fluent account of a fascinating topic. The question of temporality and its relationship to Renaissance literature is compelling, and Barret writes engagingly, providing illuminating, supple, and sophisticated readings of a variety of texts. -Jesse M. Lander, University of Notre Dame, author of Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England Untold Futures is marvelous, both erudite and clever, and also contains beautiful writing. It offers an important new perspective on early modern historiography. Diverging from nearly all other studies of Renaissance conceptions of time, J. K. Barret uncovers a persistent interest in the earthly future (with all of its uncertainties) in some of the most important texts in the canon of Renaissance literature. -Jenny C. Mann, Cornell University, author of Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

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J. K. Barret is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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