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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... by the hectoring of thepress and the anger of parliamentary debate, and bythe fierce competitiveedgeof poetrynoless than partisanship. Politicalandsocial theory were the province of strong intellects –Thomas Hobbes, James Harrington ...
... by the hectoring of thepress and the anger of parliamentary debate, and bythe fierce competitiveedgeof poetrynoless than partisanship. Politicalandsocial theory were the province of strong intellects –Thomas Hobbes, James Harrington ...
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... bythe executive andthecreation of a sense ofcommon identityin those who wielded social, economic, andpolitical power ... by the genius of Walpole. Plumb implies thatthe political instability ofthe laterStuart period hadmuch thesame ...
... bythe executive andthecreation of a sense ofcommon identityin those who wielded social, economic, andpolitical power ... by the genius of Walpole. Plumb implies thatthe political instability ofthe laterStuart period hadmuch thesame ...
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... bythe 1690sthey paid a swingeing Land Tax, supported a huge National Debt, and found professional administrators interfering ceaselessly intheir affairs. A society based on the ownership of landwas givingway to a more complexsociety ...
... bythe 1690sthey paid a swingeing Land Tax, supported a huge National Debt, and found professional administrators interfering ceaselessly intheir affairs. A society based on the ownership of landwas givingway to a more complexsociety ...
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... bythe boom and subsequent crash in thevalueof South Sea Company stock in 1720destroyed Stanhope's ministry and gave ... by the Dukesof Newcastle, Devonshire, and Argyll. But another explanation forhis successwas the absence of ...
... bythe boom and subsequent crash in thevalueof South Sea Company stock in 1720destroyed Stanhope's ministry and gave ... by the Dukesof Newcastle, Devonshire, and Argyll. But another explanation forhis successwas the absence of ...
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... bythe law were essentiallynegative: the Englishpropertied classsaw itself asfreefrom the encroachments ofboth thecrown and those without property. Unfortunately Charles I and histwo sons gavethe English a distinct feeling that their law ...
... bythe law were essentiallynegative: the Englishpropertied classsaw itself asfreefrom the encroachments ofboth thecrown and those without property. Unfortunately Charles I and histwo sons gavethe English a distinct feeling that their law ...
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