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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... Restoration MARGARETA. DOODY 4 Theatrical culture 1: politics and theatre JESSICA MUNNS 5 Theatrical culture2: theatreand music JAMES A. WINN 6 Lyric forms JOSHUA SCODEL 7 Classical texts: translations and transformations PAUL HAMMOND ...
... Restoration MARGARETA. DOODY 4 Theatrical culture 1: politics and theatre JESSICA MUNNS 5 Theatrical culture2: theatreand music JAMES A. WINN 6 Lyric forms JOSHUA SCODEL 7 Classical texts: translations and transformations PAUL HAMMOND ...
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... Restoration and earlyeighteenth century England. These essays introducethe critical perspectives that shapeour current work inliterary criticism and culturalhistory evenasthey remind usofthe aesthetic theories and literarypractices of ...
... Restoration and earlyeighteenth century England. These essays introducethe critical perspectives that shapeour current work inliterary criticism and culturalhistory evenasthey remind usofthe aesthetic theories and literarypractices of ...
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... restoration of CharlesII.On 29May, his birthday, Charles arrived in London. Charles was aware ofhis widepolitical debts and took care to conciliate wherever possible– reprisals weresmall scale andmany exCromwellians found royalfavor at ...
... restoration of CharlesII.On 29May, his birthday, Charles arrived in London. Charles was aware ofhis widepolitical debts and took care to conciliate wherever possible– reprisals weresmall scale andmany exCromwellians found royalfavor at ...
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... Restoration life. The settlement confirmed a sense that Anglicanismwasa sure sign of loyaltyand political trustworthiness and that Dissent was synonymous with kingkilling puritanism. This was underlinedbyaseries of laws ofthe 1660s ...
... Restoration life. The settlement confirmed a sense that Anglicanismwasa sure sign of loyaltyand political trustworthiness and that Dissent was synonymous with kingkilling puritanism. This was underlinedbyaseries of laws ofthe 1660s ...
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... restoration, and a few, towhom Bolingbroke gaveleadership, toyed with Jacobitism, thecause of JamesII and,after James's deathin 1701, ofhisson,the socalledJames III,the Pretender tothe British throne.In the last months of QueenAnne, the ...
... restoration, and a few, towhom Bolingbroke gaveleadership, toyed with Jacobitism, thecause of JamesII and,after James's deathin 1701, ofhisson,the socalledJames III,the Pretender tothe British throne.In the last months of QueenAnne, the ...
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