UID:
almafu_9960119032602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xv, 402 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781108529945
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1108529941
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9781108534208
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1108534201
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9781108525251
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1108525253
Serie:
Early Modern Literature in Transition
Inhalt:
The years 1660 to 1714 represent a fraught transitional period, one caught between two now dominant periodization rubrics: early modern and the long eighteenth century. Containing narratives of disruption, restoration, and reconfiguration, Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714 explores the conjunctions and disjunctions between historical and literary developments in this period, when the sociable, rivalrous textual world of letters registered and accelerated changes. Each of the volume's four parts highlights the relationship of various literary forms to a different kind of transformation - generic, ideological, cultural, or local. The five chapters in each section rigorously probe the conditions that affected the period's literary transformations, and interrogate the traditions that canonical and less established writers inherited, adapted, and often challenged. In making a case for an early mimetically produced English nation, this book, through its concentration on literary evidence and transitions also makes innovative contributions to an understanding of nationalism in the period.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2019).
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: National Transitions, Literary Transitions -- Part I Generic Transitions -- Chapter 1 Pedantry and Party Politics: Essays in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 2 "Familiar Things ... Made New": Epic and Mock-epic Verse, 1660-1714 -- Chapter 3 The Satiric Contract -- Chapter 4 Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, and the Incubation of New Genres: 1660-1714 -- Chapter 5 Travel Literature and the Emergent Nation -- Part II Ideological Transitions -- Chapter 6 Literature, Religion, and Party Politics, 1660-1714 -- Chapter 7 The Dissidence of Dissent in Late Seventeenth-Century English Literature -- Chapter 8 Profit and Power: Literature and the English Commercial Empire, 1651-1714 -- Chapter 9 "Heaven's Center, Nature's Lap": Literary Models of Nation and Empire, 1660-1714 -- Chapter 10 Brave New World: A Restoration Debate -- Part III Cultural Transitions -- Chapter 11 Female Wits and the Late Stuart Stage -- Chapter 12 Deregulating the Libertine Mind: Wine, Wit, and Wanton Fancy -- Chapter 13 After Libertinism: The Passions of the Polite Christian Hero -- Chapter 14 Chymistry, Primary Qualities, and Empirical Knowledge -- Chapter 15 Information and Irony -- Part IV Local Transitions -- Chapter 16 Nation and Environment in Britain, 1660-1705 -- Chapter 17 Creating the Territories of Recreation: Parks, Squares, and the Exotic in London's Little Wilderness -- Chapter 18 Early English Sinology, 1577-1688 -- Chapter 19 John Dryden and Anne Killigrew: Postmortems on the Restoration -- Chapter 20 In Defense of the Short Eighteenth Century 1714 as Year Zero -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781108422680
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1108422683
Sprache:
Englisch
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