Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714: Volume 3

ISBN-13: 9781108422680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 420 str.

Elizabeth Sauer

Opis

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

Recenzje

'Each essay concludes with suggestions for further reading, and many are accompanied by clear, well reproduced black- and- white illustrations … signal achievements in current early modern scholarship.' Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Milton Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: national transitions, literary transitions Elizabeth Sauer; Part I. Generic Transitions: 1. Pedantry and party politics: essays in the public sphere Denise Gigante; 2. 'Familiar things … made new': epic and mock-epic verse, 1660–1714 Mark Blackwell; 3. The satiric contract David Rosen ‎and Aaron Santesso; 4. Tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy and the incubation of new genres: 1660–1714 Marcie Frank; 5. Travel literature and the emergent nation Clement Hawes; Part II. Ideological Transitions: 6. Literature, religion and party politics, 1660–1714 Melinda S. Zook; 7. The dissidence of dissent in late seventeenth-century English literature Elizabeth Sauer; 8. Power and profit: literature and the English commercial empire, 1651–1714 Ramesh Mallipeddi; 9. 'Heaven's center, nature's lap': literary models of nation and empire, 1660–1714 Suvir Kaul; 10. Brave new world: a Restoration debate Margaret Kean; Part III. Cultural Transitions: 11. Female wits and the late Stuart stage Bridget Orr; 12. Deregulating the libertine mind: wine, wit, and wanton fancy James Steintrager; 13. After libertinism: the passions of the polite Christian hero Christopher Tilmouth; 14. Chymistry, primary qualities, and empirical knowledge Helen Thompson; 15. Information and irony Sean Silver; Part IV. Local Transitions: 16. Nation and environment in Britain, 1660–1705 Robert Markley; 17. Creating the territories of recreation: parks, squares, and the exotic in London's little wilderness Kevin L. Cope; 18. Early English sinology, 1577–1688 William Poole; 19. John Dryden and Anne Killigrew: postmortems on the Restoration Jennifer Brady; ‎20. In defense of the short eighteenth century: 1714 as year zero Pat Rogers.