The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740Steven N. Zwicker This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew. |
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... England 1649–1750: differences contained? JOHN SPURR 2 Satire, lampoon,libel,slander MICHAEL SEIDEL 3 Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration MARGARETA. DOODY 4 Theatrical culture 1: politics and theatre JESSICA ...
... England 1649–1750: differences contained? JOHN SPURR 2 Satire, lampoon,libel,slander MICHAEL SEIDEL 3 Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration MARGARETA. DOODY 4 Theatrical culture 1: politics and theatre JESSICA ...
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... England. The essays inthis volume extendan invitation to read the major texts, to think about the central intellectual practices, andto imagine the relations amongthe books, people, and politics of Restoration and earlyeighteenth ...
... England. The essays inthis volume extendan invitation to read the major texts, to think about the central intellectual practices, andto imagine the relations amongthe books, people, and politics of Restoration and earlyeighteenth ...
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... England(17March); Commonwealth proclaimed(19 May) Virgil;Milton, Eikonoklastes 1650 Charles I, Eikon Basilike; Lovelace, Lucasta; Ogilby, Preface to Gondibert; Vaughan, Silex Scintillans 1651 Hobbes, Leviathan; Marvell writes Upon ...
... England(17March); Commonwealth proclaimed(19 May) Virgil;Milton, Eikonoklastes 1650 Charles I, Eikon Basilike; Lovelace, Lucasta; Ogilby, Preface to Gondibert; Vaughan, Silex Scintillans 1651 Hobbes, Leviathan; Marvell writes Upon ...
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... England established;deathof Queen Mary(28 December) Serious Proposal toLadies; Dryden, Love Triumphant 1695 Congreve, LoveforLove; Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity; Southerne, Oroonoko 1696 Christianity NotMysterious; Vanbrugh ...
... England established;deathof Queen Mary(28 December) Serious Proposal toLadies; Dryden, Love Triumphant 1695 Congreve, LoveforLove; Locke, The Reasonableness of Christianity; Southerne, Oroonoko 1696 Christianity NotMysterious; Vanbrugh ...
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... England 1725 edition, The Works ofShakespeare 1726 Swift, Gulliver'sTravels GeorgeI (11June); coronation ofGeorge II (11 1749 Fielding, Tom Jones; Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes; Cleland,. Death Thomson, Bentley, Origin of Bolingbroke ...
... England 1725 edition, The Works ofShakespeare 1726 Swift, Gulliver'sTravels GeorgeI (11June); coronation ofGeorge II (11 1749 Fielding, Tom Jones; Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes; Cleland,. Death Thomson, Bentley, Origin of Bolingbroke ...
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