'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
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.