Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660: Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dobranski, Stephen B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The early modern period in Britain was defined by tremendous upheaval - the upending of monarchy, the unsettling of church doctrine, and the pursuit of a new method of inquiry based on an inductive experimental model. Political Turmoil: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 offers an innovative and ambitious re-appraisal of seventeenth-century British literature and history. Each of the contributors attempts to address the 'how' and 'why' of aesthetic change by focusing on political and cultural transformations. Instead of forging a grand narrative of continuity, the contributors attempt to piece together the often complex web of factors and events that contributed to developments in literary form and matter - as well as the social and religious changes that literature sometimes helped to occasion. These twenty chapters, reading across traditional periodization, demonstrate that early modern literary works - when they were conceived, as they were created, and after they circulated - were, above all, involved in various types of transitions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108318082
• Artikelnr.: 57074054

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: turmoil, political and otherwise; Part I. Generic
Transitions: 1. Writing the self Sharon Cadman Seelig; 2. Changing places
and transitional spaces: plays, masques, and performances Julie Sanders; 3.
Erotic and devotional verse Stephen Guy-Bray; 4. Kingdoms of the mind: epic
forms, fragments, and translations Anthony Welch; 5. 'Useful' books and
mobile poems Randall Ingram; Part II. Literature and Ideological
Transformation: 6. The symbolism of anti-Calvinism John Rumrich; 7.
Royalist writing and the trope of prison Jerome de Groot; 8. Shakespearean
constitutions: literary culture and republicanism Nicholas McDowell; 9.
'The best of texts': the death of Charles I Stephen B. Dobranski; 10. A
British Caesar? Representations of Oliver Cromwell Laura Knoppers; Part
III. Literature and Cultural Transformation: 11. An 'Amsterdamnified'
public sphere: English newsbooks, pamphleteering and polemic in European
context Jason Peacey; 12. Affected and disaffected alike: women, print, and
the problem of women's literary history Lara Dodds; 13. Imagining the
scientific revolution in England Katherine Calloway; 14. Revitalizing
nation and mind: the failed promise of seventeenth-century educational
reform Todd Butler; 15. The end of friendship Gregory Chaplin; Part IV.
Literature and Local Transformation: 16. Country matters Verena Olejniczak
Lobsien; 17. Life during wartime: the writing of civil war London
Christopher D'Addario; 18. Nations in question: writing Scotland and
Ireland James Loxley; 19. England, neo-Latin, and the continental journey
Estelle Haan; 20. Global commerce and an emergent 'empire of trade' Stephen
Deng.