Steven N. Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor of Humanities at Washington University, St. Louis and Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of History. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge, 1998), Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England, ed. with Kevin Sharpe (Cambridge, 2003), John Dryden: Selected Poems (2001), Refiguring Revolutions, ed. with Kevin Sharpe (1998), Lines of Authority (1993), Politics of Discourse, ed. with Kevin Sharpe (1987) and Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry (1984).
Chronology
Part I. Pleasures of the Imagination: 1. Composing a literary life: introduction Steven N. Zwicker
2. Dryden and the theatrical imagination Stuart Sherman
3. Dryden and the energies of satire Ronald Paulson
4. Dryden and the imperial imagination Laura Brown
5. Dryden and the invention of Augustan culture Paul Davis
6. Dryden's triplets Christopher Ricks
Part II. A Literary Life in Restoration England: 7. Dryden's London Harold Love
8. Dryden's theatre and the passions of politics Paulina Kewes
9. Dryden's anonymity John Mullan
10. Dryden and the modes of restoration sociability Katsuhiro Engetsu
Part III: 11. Dryden and patronage John Barnard
12. Dryden and political allegiance Annabel Patterson
13. The piety of John Dryden John Spurr
14. Dryden's 'Fables' and the judgment of art Anne Cotterill
15. Dryden and the problem of literary modernity: epilogue Steven N. Zwicker.
