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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... ofthe early Stuart masque, political theory unmatched inanalytical maturity– andalways a capacity for irony thatquickens themost familiar literary forms. Pastoral and georgic were deepenedbyMilton and Marvell; such modesas allegory ...
... ofthe early Stuart masque, political theory unmatched inanalytical maturity– andalways a capacity for irony thatquickens themost familiar literary forms. Pastoral and georgic were deepenedbyMilton and Marvell; such modesas allegory ...
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... ofthe legislature bythe executive andthecreation of a sense ofcommon identityin those who wielded social, economic, andpolitical power,in otherwords, thesystemof Sir RobertWalpole, the dominant minister ofthe1720s and 1730s. The ...
... ofthe legislature bythe executive andthecreation of a sense ofcommon identityin those who wielded social, economic, andpolitical power,in otherwords, thesystemof Sir RobertWalpole, the dominant minister ofthe1720s and 1730s. The ...
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... of the Church of England with most of its pre 1640 powers intact disappointed those who had been led to expect a wider ... ofthe Church of England. These measures failed to createa oneparty state but succeeded inkeeping the memories ...
... of the Church of England with most of its pre 1640 powers intact disappointed those who had been led to expect a wider ... ofthe Church of England. These measures failed to createa oneparty state but succeeded inkeeping the memories ...
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... of the masses and of officeholding; but much ofthe story canonly be explained byfear and rumor, denunciation andcounter allegation, and the sheerpressure ofevents. By the spring of 1679, withasecond Test Acton the statute bookand the ...
... of the masses and of officeholding; but much ofthe story canonly be explained byfear and rumor, denunciation andcounter allegation, and the sheerpressure ofevents. By the spring of 1679, withasecond Test Acton the statute bookand the ...
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... ofthe huge changes brought about under William III. Thelast of the Stuarts,1689–1714 The opportunity toredefine theconstitution was missedin 1660; therole ofparliament, the precise limitsof theroyal prerogative, andthe locationof ...
... ofthe huge changes brought about under William III. Thelast of the Stuarts,1689–1714 The opportunity toredefine theconstitution was missedin 1660; therole ofparliament, the precise limitsof theroyal prerogative, andthe locationof ...
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