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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... Stuart masque, political theory unmatched inanalytical maturity– andalways a capacity for irony thatquickens themost familiar literary forms. Pastoral and georgic were deepenedbyMilton and Marvell; such modesas allegory, romance, and ...
... Stuart masque, political theory unmatched inanalytical maturity– andalways a capacity for irony thatquickens themost familiar literary forms. Pastoral and georgic were deepenedbyMilton and Marvell; such modesas allegory, romance, and ...
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... Stuart,son of James II and Mary ofModena (10June); Williamof Orange lands at Torbay(5November); James IIfleestoFrance (24 December) 1689 isoffered toWilliam of Orange and Mary Toleration Act (24May); Battleof the Death Thomson, Bentley ...
... Stuart,son of James II and Mary ofModena (10June); Williamof Orange lands at Torbay(5November); James IIfleestoFrance (24 December) 1689 isoffered toWilliam of Orange and Mary Toleration Act (24May); Battleof the Death Thomson, Bentley ...
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... Stuart, the Old Pretender 1688–1766 Samuel Richardson 1689–1761 Lady MaryWortley Montagu 1689–1762 George Lillo 1693–1739 Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield 1694–1773 John, LordHervey 1696–1743 William Hogarth 1697–1764 James Thomson ...
... Stuart, the Old Pretender 1688–1766 Samuel Richardson 1689–1761 Lady MaryWortley Montagu 1689–1762 George Lillo 1693–1739 Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield 1694–1773 John, LordHervey 1696–1743 William Hogarth 1697–1764 James Thomson ...
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... Stuart kingship inthe 1630s, engendered antagonisms which theensuing civilwar and military rule could onlydeepen and embitter. After therestoration of the monarchy each subsequent decade seemed tobring another confrontationorcrisis ...
... Stuart kingship inthe 1630s, engendered antagonisms which theensuing civilwar and military rule could onlydeepen and embitter. After therestoration of the monarchy each subsequent decade seemed tobring another confrontationorcrisis ...
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... Stuart forcesin Scotland andIreland. William spentsummer after summer –sixtytwo monthsof his reign in total–campaigning abroad. The Nine Years War (1689–97) saw William bogged down inthe Netherlands, staving offFrench advances, and ...
... Stuart forcesin Scotland andIreland. William spentsummer after summer –sixtytwo monthsof his reign in total–campaigning abroad. The Nine Years War (1689–97) saw William bogged down inthe Netherlands, staving offFrench advances, and ...
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