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The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution
This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the political pressures of their time. Opening with essential contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture, the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events. Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary political context sheds new light on such well-known literary writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact.
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The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution
This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the political pressures of their time. Opening with essential contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture, the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events. Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary political context sheds new light on such well-known literary writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact.
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The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

by Laura Lunger Knoppers (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution
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The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution

by Laura Lunger Knoppers (Editor)

Overview

This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war, regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy, constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the political pressures of their time. Opening with essential contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture, the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events. Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington, Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary political context sheds new light on such well-known literary writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199560608
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/07/2013
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 744
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Laura Lunger Knoppers is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University. She has published widely on seventeenth-century British literature, visual culture, politics, and religion, particularly on the works of John Milton.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical Framework and Issues, Laura Lunger KnoppersPART I: ENGLAND AT HOME AND IN THE WORLD1. England, Europe, and the English Revolution, Nigel Smith2. Three Kingdoms, Eamon Darcy3. British Atlantic World, Carla Gardina Pestana4. Political Thought, Glenn Burgess5. Religion, John Coffey6. Literature, Medicine, and Science, Karen Edwards7. Licensing, censorship, and the book trade, Jason McElligott8. Society and the Roles of Women, Ann HughesPART II: CIVIL WARS9. News, Pamphlets, and Public Opinion, Jason Peacey10. Principle and Politics in Milton s Areopagitica, Stephen B. Dobranski11. The Personal Rule of Poets: Cavalier Poetry and the English Revolution, Ann Baynes Coiro12. Civil War letters and diaries and the rhetoric of experience, Helen Wilcox13. Marvell Among the Cavaliers, Nicholas McDowell14. The Levellers: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, and William Walwyn, Rachel FoxleyPART III: REGICIDE AND REPUBLIC15. Eikon Basilike: The printing, composition, strategy, and impact of the king s book, Robert Wilcher16. Nascent Republican Theory in Milton's Regicide Prose, Stephen M. Fallon17. Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, David Loewenstein18. Abiezer Coppe and the Ranters, Ariel Hessayon19. Marchamont Nedham: Polemic, Analysis, Allegiance, Joad Raymond20. The Claims of a Civil Science : Hobbes's Leviathan, James Loxley21. Henry Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan: Welsh Anglicanism, Chymick , and the English Revolution, Nigel Smith22. Conversion narratives in Old and New England, Kathleen LynchPART IV: PROTECTORATE23. Milton s Defences and the Principle of sanior pars, Elizabeth Sauer24. Prophecy and Political Expression in Cromwellian England, Katharine Gillespie25. Marvell Among the Cromwellians, Nicholas McDowell26. Countering Anti-theatricality: Davenant and the Drama of the Protectorate, Janet Clare27. Printed Recipe Books in Medical, Political, and Scientific Contexts, Elizabeth Spiller28. James Harrington s The Commonwealth of Oceana and the Republican Tradition, Rachel Hammersley29. The Political Ideologies of Revolutionary Prose Romance, Amelia Zurcher30. Quakers and the Culture of Print in the 1650s, Kate PetersPART V: RESTORATION31. Lament for a Nationa Milton s Readie and Easie Way and the Turn to Satire32. The Early Poetry of John Dryden, Thomas N. Corns33. Say first, what causea The Origins of Paradise Lost34. Acephalous Authority: Satire in Butler, Marvell, and Dryden, Clement Hawes35. The Consolation of Natural Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish and the English Revolution, Rachel Trubowitz36. Family and Commonwealth in the Writings of Lucy Hutchinson, Shannon Miller37. Out of the spoils won in Battel : John Bunyan, N. H. Keeble
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