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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... revolution that beganasaway offunding WilliamIll's wars to contain France resulted inan expanded domesticeconomy, in the swelling of professions, the creation of empire, the importation ofluxury, and the profusion ofthat commodity ...
... revolution that beganasaway offunding WilliamIll's wars to contain France resulted inan expanded domesticeconomy, in the swelling of professions, the creation of empire, the importation ofluxury, and the profusion ofthat commodity ...
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... Revolution to revolution, 1649–1689 Shortly after Charles I's execution on 30January 1649, the office ofkingwas abolished. Whilethenew republicwas ostensibly governed by a parliament, power lay with the New Model Army and its leader ...
... Revolution to revolution, 1649–1689 Shortly after Charles I's execution on 30January 1649, the office ofkingwas abolished. Whilethenew republicwas ostensibly governed by a parliament, power lay with the New Model Army and its leader ...
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... , paralyzedby indecision and nosebleeds:afterone botched attempt atflight, James left for France on 23December. The Glorious Revolution was a moment of political unity in late December and January. It was bipartisan action,
... , paralyzedby indecision and nosebleeds:afterone botched attempt atflight, James left for France on 23December. The Glorious Revolution was a moment of political unity in late December and January. It was bipartisan action,
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... Revolution, this resolution was tobe reinterpreted in years to come as ifJameshad been deposedfor breaking an original contract betweenruler and people.Such aWhig rereading ofthe Revolution, withall it impliedabout the nature of ...
... Revolution, this resolution was tobe reinterpreted in years to come as ifJameshad been deposedfor breaking an original contract betweenruler and people.Such aWhig rereading ofthe Revolution, withall it impliedabout the nature of ...
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... Revolution of 1688– 89 was England's involvement in the frontlineof major European wars for eighteenof the next twentythree years. William ofOrange hadintervened in Englandbecause he needed to bring herinto his war againstLouisXIV,but ...
... Revolution of 1688– 89 was England's involvement in the frontlineof major European wars for eighteenof the next twentythree years. William ofOrange hadintervened in Englandbecause he needed to bring herinto his war againstLouisXIV,but ...
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