Matthew C. Augustine

Aesthetics of contingency

Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639-89

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Produktbeschreibung

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-centuryâ s civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781526100764
• ISBN-10: 1526100762
• Artikelnr.: 50986939

Autorenporträt

Matthew C. Augustine is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: remapping early modern literature 1. 'He saw a greater Sun
appear': waiting for the apocalypse in Milton's Poems 1645 2. 'We goe to
heaven against each others wills': revising Religio Medici in the English
Revolution 3. 'But Iconoclastes drawn in little': making and unmaking a
Whig Marvell 4. 'It had an odde promiscuous tone': Lord Rochester and
Restoration modernity 5. 'Transprosing and Transversing': religion,
revolution, and the end of history in Dryden's late works 6. Coda Index