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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... and his brother in grandiose ambitions of absolutist government. AsAndrew Marvell putitin 1677,“there has now for diverse Years a Design beencarriedon ... andhis witnesses with sedition, republicanism, and Dissent. The years after 1681 saw.
... and his brother in grandiose ambitions of absolutist government. AsAndrew Marvell putitin 1677,“there has now for diverse Years a Design beencarriedon ... andhis witnesses with sedition, republicanism, and Dissent. The years after 1681 saw.
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... and his brother's partial success in freeing themselves– in,for instance, keeping a standing army without ... andhis queen atacurious ceremony in the Banqueting Hall atWhitehall. Later, thedeclaration became astatute, the Bill ...
... and his brother's partial success in freeing themselves– in,for instance, keeping a standing army without ... andhis queen atacurious ceremony in the Banqueting Hall atWhitehall. Later, thedeclaration became astatute, the Bill ...
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... andhis betrayal ofall that 1688hadstood for. Bolingbroke andthe “patriot”opposition decried theofficial corruption andthe prevalence of “party”; they demanded the reduction ofthe standing army, a cutback inthe number of placemen ...
... andhis betrayal ofall that 1688hadstood for. Bolingbroke andthe “patriot”opposition decried theofficial corruption andthe prevalence of “party”; they demanded the reduction ofthe standing army, a cutback inthe number of placemen ...
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... andhis administration. The Torieswere more ambiguous: many retained a residual loyalty toJames II, the rightful king, andhis heirs even while recognizing William asthede facto king;in parliament Toriesaccepted the leadership ofEdward ...
... andhis administration. The Torieswere more ambiguous: many retained a residual loyalty toJames II, the rightful king, andhis heirs even while recognizing William asthede facto king;in parliament Toriesaccepted the leadership ofEdward ...
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... and his royal masters of their untrustworthiness; and most Tories were vociferous in their support oftheChurch of England and theircriticism of a Hanoverianbias to British foreign policy, neither of which endearedthemto suspicious ...
... and his royal masters of their untrustworthiness; and most Tories were vociferous in their support oftheChurch of England and theircriticism of a Hanoverianbias to British foreign policy, neither of which endearedthemto suspicious ...
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