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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... Killigrew and Henry Purcell are delicate constructs, Congreve's drama reveals a subtle theatrical culture, Swift's allegories and Lord Hervey's memoirs, Pope's verseepistles and Montagu's letters orchestrate anincomparable rangeof ...
... Killigrew and Henry Purcell are delicate constructs, Congreve's drama reveals a subtle theatrical culture, Swift's allegories and Lord Hervey's memoirs, Pope's verseepistles and Montagu's letters orchestrate anincomparable rangeof ...
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... 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 Mary ofModena (10June); ...
... 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 Mary ofModena (10June); ...
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... 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 Hutchinson 1620? Andrew Marvell 1621–1678 Roger Boyle ...
... 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 Hutchinson 1620? Andrew Marvell 1621–1678 Roger Boyle ...
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... Killigrew 1660–1685 Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 1661–1724 Nicholas Hawksmoor 1661–1736 Richard Bentley 1662–1742 Queen MaryII 1662–1694 Matthew Prior 1664–1721 Sir John Vanbrugh 1664–1726 Queen Anne 1665–1714 Mary Astell 1666–1731 ...
... Killigrew 1660–1685 Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 1661–1724 Nicholas Hawksmoor 1661–1736 Richard Bentley 1662–1742 Queen MaryII 1662–1694 Matthew Prior 1664–1721 Sir John Vanbrugh 1664–1726 Queen Anne 1665–1714 Mary Astell 1666–1731 ...
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