Brandon Chua

Ravishment of Reason

Governance and the Heroic Idioms of the Late Stuart Stage, 1660-1690

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Produktbeschreibung

Ravishment of Reason presents a new contextual framework for the study of Restoration drama, demonstrating the important cultural work performed by the restored theaters in offering versions of political theory that mediated between older notions of thaumaturgic authority and proto-modern forms of government premised upon autonomy and contract.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485820
• ISBN-10: 1611485827
• Artikelnr.: 40847597

Autorenporträt

By Brandon Chua

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction One: "Heroicall
Pictures": Government and the Restoration Heroic Play Two: "New Rights we
Grant not, but the Old Declare": History, Friendship, and Consent in Roger
Boyle's Henry V (1664) Three: "Tis All but Ceremony Which Is Past":
Conversion and Heroic Passions in John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada,
Parts One and Two (1670-1672) Four: Shakespeare's History Lesson: John
Crowne's Misery of Civil War (1680) Five: "Cajoling the People with his
Known Industry": The Passions and Spectacular Politics in Nathaniel Lee's
Lucius Junius Brutus Six: The Politics of Cowardice: Fear, Interest, and
Security in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter (1689) Seven: "Half Loath and
Half Consenting": Interpretive Relativism and Incest in John Dryden's Don
Sebastian (1690) Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author