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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... London playbill, 1725. 4.4 The Queen's Theatre, the Haymarket (1707). Figs. 4.1–4.4 are reproduced from the collections of the Theatre Museum by courtesy ofthe Trustees of the Victoriaand AlbertMuseum, London. CONTRIBUTORS ROS BALLASTER ...
... London playbill, 1725. 4.4 The Queen's Theatre, the Haymarket (1707). Figs. 4.1–4.4 are reproduced from the collections of the Theatre Museum by courtesy ofthe Trustees of the Victoriaand AlbertMuseum, London. CONTRIBUTORS ROS BALLASTER ...
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... London JESSICA MUNNS , University ofNew Orleans JOSHUA SCODEL , University of Chicago MICHAEL SEIDEL , Columbia University,New York PATRÍCIA SPRINGBORG ,University ofSydney JOHN SPURR , University of Wales,Swansea JAMES A. WINN ...
... London JESSICA MUNNS , University ofNew Orleans JOSHUA SCODEL , University of Chicago MICHAEL SEIDEL , Columbia University,New York PATRÍCIA SPRINGBORG ,University ofSydney JOHN SPURR , University of Wales,Swansea JAMES A. WINN ...
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... London theatres (2 September) Browne, Religio Medici; Hobbes, De Cive (in Paris) 1644 Milton, Areopagitica 1645 Milton, Poems 1648 Filmer, Anarchy ofaLimited or Mixed Monarchy; Hesperides andNobles Numbers 1649 Execution ofCharlesI (30 ...
... London theatres (2 September) Browne, Religio Medici; Hobbes, De Cive (in Paris) 1644 Milton, Areopagitica 1645 Milton, Poems 1648 Filmer, Anarchy ofaLimited or Mixed Monarchy; Hesperides andNobles Numbers 1649 Execution ofCharlesI (30 ...
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... London (2 September) 1667 Peace Treaty of Breda concluding AngloDutch War (21 July) Dryden, Annus Mirabilis; Marvell,Last Instructions; Paradise Lost; Sprat, History of theRoyal Society 1668 Dryden appointed Poet Laureate Dryden, An ...
... London (2 September) 1667 Peace Treaty of Breda concluding AngloDutch War (21 July) Dryden, Annus Mirabilis; Marvell,Last Instructions; Paradise Lost; Sprat, History of theRoyal Society 1668 Dryden appointed Poet Laureate Dryden, An ...
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... London Merchant 1732 ed.Paradise Lost; Fielding, Covent Garden Honour 1733 Tragedy; Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress; Mandeville, Dissertation Upon Parties; Hogarth, A Rake's Progress;Wortley Montagu and Lord Hervey, Verses Addressedto the ...
... London Merchant 1732 ed.Paradise Lost; Fielding, Covent Garden Honour 1733 Tragedy; Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress; Mandeville, Dissertation Upon Parties; Hogarth, A Rake's Progress;Wortley Montagu and Lord Hervey, Verses Addressedto the ...
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