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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... 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 andDefoe, Popeand Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual ...
... 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 andDefoe, Popeand Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual ...
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... the written permission of Cambridge UniversityPress. First published 1998 Reprinted 1999,2000,2004 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The ...
... the written permission of Cambridge UniversityPress. First published 1998 Reprinted 1999,2000,2004 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The ...
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... A scene from ElkanahSettle's The Empressof Morocco (1673). 4.3 London playbill, 1725. 4.4 The Queen's Theatre, the Haymarket (1707). Figs. 4.1–4.4 are reproduced from the collections of the Theatre Museum by courtesy ofthe Trustees of the ...
... A scene from ElkanahSettle's The Empressof Morocco (1673). 4.3 London playbill, 1725. 4.4 The Queen's Theatre, the Haymarket (1707). Figs. 4.1–4.4 are reproduced from the collections of the Theatre Museum by courtesy ofthe Trustees of the ...
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... the criminal –the eighteenth century saw a huge increase in the penalties for offenses against property –and ugly in its political usesof terror –fromthe executions during the Popish Plotto themassacre at Glencoe and thecampaign after ...
... the criminal –the eighteenth century saw a huge increase in the penalties for offenses against property –and ugly in its political usesof terror –fromthe executions during the Popish Plotto themassacre at Glencoe and thecampaign after ...
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... The expansionin the numbersof lawyers, doctors, teachers, clergymen, naval andarmy officers, andcivil servants,and just asimportantly the increase in theirsocial status, meant thatthose excluded from political lifecould find avenues ...
... The expansionin the numbersof lawyers, doctors, teachers, clergymen, naval andarmy officers, andcivil servants,and just asimportantly the increase in theirsocial status, meant thatthose excluded from political lifecould find avenues ...
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