Author: Nigel Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority.
Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660
Author: Nigel Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority.
Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660
Author: Marcus Nevitt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351872176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women. In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women. This is the first sustained study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660. It adds to the study of gender in the field of the English Revolution by engaging with recent work in the history of the book, stressing the materiality of texts and the means and physical processes by which women's writing emerged through the printing press and networks of publication and dissemination. It will stimulate welcome debate about the nature and limits of discursive freedom in the early modern period, and for women in particular.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351872176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women. In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women. This is the first sustained study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660. It adds to the study of gender in the field of the English Revolution by engaging with recent work in the history of the book, stressing the materiality of texts and the means and physical processes by which women's writing emerged through the printing press and networks of publication and dissemination. It will stimulate welcome debate about the nature and limits of discursive freedom in the early modern period, and for women in particular.
Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690
Author: a foreword by Lisa Jardine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351921916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351921916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.
The English Civil Wars
Author: Blair Worden
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297857592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297857592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
The Good Old Cause
The English Revolution, 1600-1660
Author: Eric William Ives
Publisher: New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN: 9780613154949
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN: 9780613154949
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Good Old Cause: the English Revolution of 1640-1660
Author: Christopher Hill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780714614830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780714614830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This book examines the English revolution from 1640-1660, with particualr attenion to the social structure of England at the time.
Radicalism in the English Revolution, 1640-1660
Author: F. D. Dow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Literature and the English Civil War
Author: Thomas Healy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521370825
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context from 1640-1660. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre; the politics of the masque; lyric and devotional poetry; women's writings; attitudes towards Ireland; colonialism; madness and division; and individual writers such as Hobbes, Marvell and Milton.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521370825
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context from 1640-1660. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre; the politics of the masque; lyric and devotional poetry; women's writings; attitudes towards Ireland; colonialism; madness and division; and individual writers such as Hobbes, Marvell and Milton.
Social Problems and Policy During the Puritan Revolution, 1640-1660
Author: Margaret James
Publisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description