Aesthetics of contingency: Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639-89

ISBN-13: 9781526100764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Matthew Augustine

Opis

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century's civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future. -- .