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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... JAMES A. WINN 6 Lyric forms JOSHUA SCODEL 7 Classical texts: translations and transformations PAUL HAMMOND Part 2: Writers 8 “This Islands watchful Centinél”: anti Catholicism and protoWhiggery in Milton and Marvell CEDRIC C. BROWN 9 ...
... JAMES A. WINN 6 Lyric forms JOSHUA SCODEL 7 Classical texts: translations and transformations PAUL HAMMOND Part 2: Writers 8 “This Islands watchful Centinél”: anti Catholicism and protoWhiggery in Milton and Marvell CEDRIC C. BROWN 9 ...
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... University ofSydney JOHN SPURR , University of Wales,Swansea JAMES A. WINN , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor STEVEN N. ZWICKER , Washington University, St. Louis PREFACE The aim of this volume is to introduce students.
... University ofSydney JOHN SPURR , University of Wales,Swansea JAMES A. WINN , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor STEVEN N. ZWICKER , Washington University, St. Louis PREFACE The aim of this volume is to introduce students.
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... James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, JohnLocke, Mary Astell, and BernardMandeville – but politicalprograms wereoften effectedby thugs,urban crowds, andpolitical gangs. Theextremes ofsocial and political experience are everywhere reflected ...
... James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, JohnLocke, Mary Astell, and BernardMandeville – but politicalprograms wereoften effectedby thugs,urban crowds, andpolitical gangs. Theextremes ofsocial and political experience are everywhere reflected ...
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... James II(15 July) Killigrew, Poems 1687 James issues a DeclarationofIndulgence (4April) TheHindandthe Panther; Halifax, Letterto a Dissenter; Newton, Principia Mathematica 1688 Birth of JamesFrancis Edward Stuart,son of James II and ...
... James II(15 July) Killigrew, Poems 1687 James issues a DeclarationofIndulgence (4April) TheHindandthe Panther; Halifax, Letterto a Dissenter; Newton, Principia Mathematica 1688 Birth of JamesFrancis Edward Stuart,son of James II and ...
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... James Harrington 1611–1677 Samuel Butler 1612–1680 Thomas Killigrew 1612–1683 Richard Baxter 1615–1691 Sir John Denham 1615–1669 Sir Roger L'Estrange 1616–1704 Abraham Cowley 1618–1667 Sir Peter Lely 1618–1680 John Evelyn 1620–1706 Lucy ...
... James Harrington 1611–1677 Samuel Butler 1612–1680 Thomas Killigrew 1612–1683 Richard Baxter 1615–1691 Sir John Denham 1615–1669 Sir Roger L'Estrange 1616–1704 Abraham Cowley 1618–1667 Sir Peter Lely 1618–1680 John Evelyn 1620–1706 Lucy ...
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