Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, Religion, and Politics in Restoration England

ISBN-13: 9780198816409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

John West

Opis

This book explores ideas of enthusiasm, or divine inspiration, in the works of the poet, dramatist, and literary critic John Dryden. It offers a new view of a major seventeenth-century writer and also examines the complex political and religious tensions implicit in Dryden's interest in enthusiasm.

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John West was educated at Oxford and Warwick. His research and teaching focus on seventeenth-century British literature and culture. He is co-editor with Andrew McRae of Literature of the Stuart Successions: An Anthology, published with Manchester University Press, and has also published on the literature of the 1688 Revolution.