Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780198861065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Niall Allsopp

Opis

This book presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English Revolution by focusing on royalist poets who left the cause behind following the execution of the king.

O autorze

Niall Allsopp is a Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. He specializes in the literature of the seventeenth century, and particularly the English Revolution, with interests including how literature negotiates the ideas of sovereignity, political obligations, public rituals, and social cohesion in a period when such concepts were radically tested. His essay Threshold Rituals in Early Modern England: A Case Study in Robert Herrick won the Review of English Studies essay prize 2016.