Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 254 pages)
ISBN:
9781501717420
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1501717421
Inhalt:
Focusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I and the triumph of William III, Steven N. Zwicker reads English literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical contests. Zwicker juxtaposes overtly polemical writings-pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads-with canonical works, including epic, historical verse, tragedy, and satire, in order to demonstrate how literature not only reflected on political action but also formed an important site of political exchange. Zwicker maintains that the sources of Restoration culture lay within the civil war years of the 1640s and that the memory of those years shaped writing and politics for the remainder of the century. In sensitive readings of such classic texts as Walton's Compleat Angler, Marvell's First Anniversary and Last Instructions, Milton's Paradise Lost, Dryden's Annus Mirabilis and Absalom and Achitophel, and Locke's Two Treatises of Government, he shows how these texts both engaged with pamphlet, squib, and broadside and challenged one another over the possession of cultural authority. Zwicker's analysis provides a new understanding of the connections between politics and aesthetics in the later seventeenth century and an appreciation for the texture of this culture. Successfully integrating literary history and political analysis, Lines of Authority will be valuable reading for a broad audience in the fields of Restoration and Protectorate literature, literary history, cultural and intellectual history, and the history of political thought
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-245) and index
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1. Poetics -- 2. The king's head and the politics of literary property: the "Eikon Basilike" and "Eikonoklastes" -- 3. Hunting and angling: "The compleat angler" and "The first anniversary" -- 4. The politics of pleasure: "Annus Mirabilis", "The last instructions", "Paradise lost" -- 5. Paternity, patriarchy, and the "noise of divine right": "Absalom and Achitophel" and "Two treatises of government" -- 6. Representing the revolution: "Don Sebastian" and Williamite Panegyric.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Zwicker, Steven N Lines of authority Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1993 ISBN 0801420709
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
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