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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page
... Tory, indeed patriarchal, ideology –Aphra Behn, Mary Astell, and Delarivier Manley embarked onbold careers intheatrical writing, philosophy, and the novel. They not only imitatedand admiredmen's writing, they alsomocked andchallenged ...
... Tory, indeed patriarchal, ideology –Aphra Behn, Mary Astell, and Delarivier Manley embarked onbold careers intheatrical writing, philosophy, and the novel. They not only imitatedand admiredmen's writing, they alsomocked andchallenged ...
Page
... Tory suggests that English enmitiesrandeep. Itis true,of course, thatthe English people hadnever beenas one,but the sixteenth century Reformation and its repercussions, followed by the crisis of Stuart kingship inthe 1630s, engendered ...
... Tory suggests that English enmitiesrandeep. Itis true,of course, thatthe English people hadnever beenas one,but the sixteenth century Reformation and its repercussions, followed by the crisis of Stuart kingship inthe 1630s, engendered ...
Page
... Tory revenge,” an attempt to drive Whigs from public life and the century's worst wave of persecution of Dissenters. In 1685 JamesII succeededtothe throne withthe blessing of the Churchof England, a welldisposed parliament,and some ...
... Tory revenge,” an attempt to drive Whigs from public life and the century's worst wave of persecution of Dissenters. In 1685 JamesII succeededtothe throne withthe blessing of the Churchof England, a welldisposed parliament,and some ...
Page
... Tory parliaments enacted serious limitations on the toleration enjoyed by Protestant Dissenters. NorcantheToleration Actof1689 be said to have been popular. Many moderate Nonconformists had aspired toreunion with the Church of England ...
... Tory parliaments enacted serious limitations on the toleration enjoyed by Protestant Dissenters. NorcantheToleration Actof1689 be said to have been popular. Many moderate Nonconformists had aspired toreunion with the Church of England ...
Page
... Tory ministry wasfalling apart. The Hanoverians, 1715–1745 God “hasnowsaved usby atrain of wonders,” rejoiced the Whig bishop Gilbert Burnet on theaccession ofGeorge I. “We were,God knows, upon the point of atleast confusions, if not ...
... Tory ministry wasfalling apart. The Hanoverians, 1715–1745 God “hasnowsaved usby atrain of wonders,” rejoiced the Whig bishop Gilbert Burnet on theaccession ofGeorge I. “We were,God knows, upon the point of atleast confusions, if not ...
Other editions - View all
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 Steven N. Zwicker No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
Absalom and Achitophel Alexander Pope andhis Andrew Marvell andthe Aphra Behn Astell Augustan Behn's bythe Cambridge University Press Catholic celebrates century Charles civil Clarendon classical comedies contemporary court Cowley Cromwell culture Davenant Defoe discourse Dissenters drama Dryden Dunciad Earl edition eighteenth EighteenthCentury England English Essay Exclusion Crisis female Flecknoe fromthe gender Glorious Revolution Gulliver's Travels heroic Horace Horace's Horatian Hudibras Ibid inhis inthe Jacobite James John John Dryden Killigrew king Lady liberty lines literary literature London Mac Flecknoe male Marvell Marvell's Mary Mary Astell Milton modern monarch Montagu ofhis ofthe Oldham onthe Opera Oroonoko Oxford parliament Pindaric plays poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's praise prose readers religion religious Restoration Revolution Rochester Rochester's Roman satire satirist semiopera seventeenthcentury sexual social Stuart Swift thatthe theatre Thomas Thomas Hobbes tobe Tory tothe translation verse Walpole Whig William withthe women writing