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Author | : Thomas N. Corns |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
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Uncloistered Virtue studies the relationship between literature and the political crises of the English Civil War. It explores the ways in which the literary culture of the period changed and survived in radically shifting circumstances and conditions of sometimes extreme adversity, and examines the ways in which old forms developed and new forms emerged to articulate new ideologies and to respond to triumphs and disasters. Included in the book's discussion of a very wide range of authors and texts are examinations of the Cavalier love poetry of Herrick and Lovelace, Herrick's religious verse, the polemical strategies of Eikon Basilike, and the complexities of Cowley's political verse. The author also provides an important new account of Marvell's political instability, while the prose of Lilburne, Winstanley, and the Ranters is the subject of a long and sustained account which focuses on their sometimes exhilarating attempts to find an idiom for ideologies which previously had been unexpressed in English political life.
Author | : Jamie Elizabeth Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Katherine Eggert |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812292618 |
Download Showing Like a Queen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For most Renaissance English thinkers, queenship was a catastrophe, a political accident that threatened to emasculate an entire nation. But some English poets and playwrights proved more inventive in their responses to female authority. In Showing Like a Queen, Katherine Eggert argues that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton turned the political problem of queenship to their advantage by using it as an occasion to experiment with new literary genres. Unlike other critics who have argued that a queen provoked only anxiety and defensiveness in her male subjects, Eggert demonstrates that even after her death Elizabeth I's forty-five-year reign enabled writers to entertain the fantasy of a counterpatriarchal realm. Eggert traces a literary history of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in which the destabilizing anomaly of female rule enables Spenser to reshape the genre of epic romance and gives Shakespeare scope to create the ruptured dynastic epic of the history plays, the psychologized tragedy of Hamlet, and the feminized tragedies of "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Winter's Tale." Turning to the second half of the seventeenth century, Eggert reveals how even after more than sixty years of male governance, Milton bases his marital epic Paradise Lost upon the formulae of queenship.
Author | : N. H. Keeble |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2001-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521645225 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Companion to the writing produced by the English Revolution, with supporting chronology and guide to further reading.
Author | : Dayton Haskin |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2007-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191526452 |
Download John Donne in the Nineteenth Century Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1906, having been assigned Izaak Walton's Life of Donne to read for his English class, a Harvard freshman heard a lecture on the long disparaged 'metaphysical' poets. Years later, when an appreciation of these poets was considered a consummate mark of a modernist sensibility, T. S. Eliot was routinely credited with having 'discovered' Donne himself. John Donne in the Nineteenth Century tracks the myriad ways in which 'Donne' was lodged in literary culture in the Romantic and Victorian periods. The early chapters document a first revival of interest when Walton's Life was said to be 'in the hands of every reader'; they explore what Wordsworth and Coleridge contributed to the conditions for the 1839 publication of the only edition ever called The Works, which reprinted the sermons of 'Dr Donne'. Later chapters trace a second revival, when admirers of the biography, turning to the prose letters and the poems to supplement Walton, discovered that his hero's writings entail the sorts of controversial issues that are raised by Browning, by the 'fleshly school' of poets, and by self-consciously 'decadent' writers of the fin de siècle. The final chapters treat the spread of the academic study of Donne from Harvard, where already in the 1880s he was the anchor of the seventeenth-century course, to other institutions and beyond the academy, showing that Donne's status as a writer eclipsed his importance as the subject of Walton's narrative, which Leslie Stephen facetiously called 'the masterpiece of English biography'.
Author | : Achsah Guibbory |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521032445 |
Download Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the relationship between literature and religious conflict in seventeenth-century England, showing how literary texts grew out of and addressed the contemporary controversy over ceremonial worship. Examining the meaning and function of religion in seventeenth-century England, Achsah Guibbory shows that the conflicts over religious ceremony that were central to the English Revolution had broad cultural significance. She offers new and original readings of Herbert, Herrick, Browne and Milton in this context.
Author | : Robert Wilcher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521661836 |
Download The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Writing of Royalism, Robert Wilcher charts the political and ideological development of 'royalism' between 1628 and 1660. His study of the literature and propaganda produced by those who adhered to the crown during the civil wars and their aftermath takes in many kinds of writing to provide a comprehensive account of the emergence of a partisan literature in support of the English monarchy and Church. Wilcher situates a wide range of minor and canonical texts in the tumultuous political contexts of the time, helpfully integrating them into a detailed historical narrative. He illustrates the role of literature in forging a party committed to the military defence of royalist values and determined to sustain them in defeat. The Writing of Royalism casts light on the complex phenomenon of 'royalism' by making available a wealth of material that should be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars.
Author | : Lorenzo Sabbadini |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0228003032 |
Download Property Liberty and Self-Ownership in Seventeenth-Century England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. This book traces the emergence and evolution of self-ownership over the course of this period, culminating in a reinterpretation of John Locke's celebrated but widely misunderstood idea that "every Man has a Property in his own Person." Often viewed through the prism of libertarian political thought, self-ownership has its roots in the neo-Roman or republican concept of liberty as freedom from dependence on the will of another. As Lorenzo Sabbadini reveals, seventeenth-century writers believed that the attainment of this status required not only a specific kind of constitution but a particular distribution of property as well. Many regarded the protection of private property as constitutive of liberty, and it is in this context that the vocabulary of self-ownership emerged. Others expressed anxieties about the corrupting effects of excessive concentrations of wealth or even the institution of private property itself. Bringing together canonical republican writers such as John Milton and James Harrington, lesser-known pamphleteers, and Locke, a theorist generally regarded as being at odds with neo-Roman thought, Property, Liberty, and Self-Ownership in Seventeenth-Century England is a bold, innovative study of some of the most influential concepts to emerge from this groundbreaking period of British history.
Author | : David Adams |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780754655916 |
Download Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What was the relationship between power and the public sphere in early modern society? How did the printed media inform this relationship? Contributors to this volume address those questions by examining the interaction of print and power in France and England during the 'hand-press period'. The central themes covered in this volume include reading and control; propaganda and its (re-)uses; the Academy; and clientism and faction.
Author | : Prasanta Chakravarty |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006-04-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135511195 |
Download Like Parchment in the Fire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the literary, religious, and political aspects of the radical movements and various sects of the English Civil War. Featuring a chapter on John Milton, this book also addresses the legal problems that engaged the early modern radical reformers, the issue of radical religion as a negotiating tool and the limits of radical liberal thought.