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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Steven N. Zwicker. than the person of their ruler – was becoming a state. Kingship would never be the same after 1649, and much of the next century was devoted to finding ways to curb a king and to weld two kingdoms and several provinces ...
Steven N. Zwicker. than the person of their ruler – was becoming a state. Kingship would never be the same after 1649, and much of the next century was devoted to finding ways to curb a king and to weld two kingdoms and several provinces ...
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Steven N. Zwicker. the literature was topical, partisan, and satirical. Nor that these writers were so deeply engaged – as politicians themselves, as selfappointed ... at odds with the conciliatory political settlement. The restoration of.
Steven N. Zwicker. the literature was topical, partisan, and satirical. Nor that these writers were so deeply engaged – as politicians themselves, as selfappointed ... at odds with the conciliatory political settlement. The restoration of.
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Steven N. Zwicker. at odds with the conciliatory political settlement. The restoration of the Church of England with most of its pre 1640 powers intact disappointed those who had been led to expect a wider national church and itdeniedthe ...
Steven N. Zwicker. at odds with the conciliatory political settlement. The restoration of the Church of England with most of its pre 1640 powers intact disappointed those who had been led to expect a wider national church and itdeniedthe ...
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... of the Churchof England, a welldisposed parliament,and some loyal andcompetent ministers (including Clarendon's sons). He also came to the throne with the overriding ambition to restore Roman Catholicism to England and to repeal the Tests.
... of the Churchof England, a welldisposed parliament,and some loyal andcompetent ministers (including Clarendon's sons). He also came to the throne with the overriding ambition to restore Roman Catholicism to England and to repeal the Tests.
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... of toleration, it simply“indulged” or exempted Protestant Dissenters from thepenalties of a long list of statutes, all ofwhich remained in force. Even toqualify for these exemptions, Nonconformists had to registerandtakea series of oaths.
... of toleration, it simply“indulged” or exempted Protestant Dissenters from thepenalties of a long list of statutes, all ofwhich remained in force. Even toqualify for these exemptions, Nonconformists had to registerandtakea series of oaths.
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