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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... court culture and 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 ...
... court culture and 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 ...
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... court (6 January); beginning of the Civil Wars (22 August); closing of the London theatres (2 September) Browne, Religio Medici; Hobbes, De Cive (in Paris) 1644 Milton, Areopagitica 1645 Milton, Poems 1648 Filmer, Anarchy ofaLimited or ...
... court (6 January); beginning of the Civil Wars (22 August); closing of the London theatres (2 September) Browne, Religio Medici; Hobbes, De Cive (in Paris) 1644 Milton, Areopagitica 1645 Milton, Poems 1648 Filmer, Anarchy ofaLimited or ...
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... Court Poems 1719 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1720 investment scheme (bubble) collapses (1 September14 October) 1722 Moll Flanders;Steele, The Conscious Lovers 1723 Waltham Black Act creating fiftynew capitaloffences including poaching hares ...
... Court Poems 1719 Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1720 investment scheme (bubble) collapses (1 September14 October) 1722 Moll Flanders;Steele, The Conscious Lovers 1723 Waltham Black Act creating fiftynew capitaloffences including poaching hares ...
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... courts rubberstamp his dispensing power, and in April 1687 exerting his suspending power in a Declaration of Indulgence which effectively granted religious toleration. His comprehensive attackonthe Tory hold over government also ...
... courts rubberstamp his dispensing power, and in April 1687 exerting his suspending power in a Declaration of Indulgence which effectively granted religious toleration. His comprehensive attackonthe Tory hold over government also ...
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... court – functioning,many believe, asthefirst Prime Minister. Walpole had nosecret: he boastedthathe was “no saint, no spartan, no reformer.” He did notlead moral crusades: as Paul Langfordobserves, “Walpole stood formany things, fiscal ...
... court – functioning,many believe, asthefirst Prime Minister. Walpole had nosecret: he boastedthathe was “no saint, no spartan, no reformer.” He did notlead moral crusades: as Paul Langfordobserves, “Walpole stood formany things, fiscal ...
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