Niall Allsopp (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford English Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780198861065
• ISBN-10: 0198861060
• Artikelnr.: 58457644

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Davenant: Imagining Sovereignty in Gondibert
2: Marvell: Action and Obedience
3: Cavendish: Ceremony and Coercion
4: Cowley: Oblivion and Obedience
5: Davenant and the Protectorate: Sovereignty and Civility
6: Restoration: Clemency and Contingency
Conclusion