Aesthetics of contingency : writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639-89 /
This new study raises fundamental questions about the nature of imaginative writing in the age of 'England's troubles.' Drawing energy from recent debates in Stuart history, this book looks past the traditional watersheds of Restoration and Revolution, plotting the responsiveness of s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | This new study raises fundamental questions about the nature of imaginative writing in the age of 'England's troubles.' Drawing energy from recent debates in Stuart history, this book looks past the traditional watersheds of Restoration and Revolution, plotting the responsiveness of seventeenth-century writers to the tremors of civil conflict and to the enduring crises and contradictions of Stuart governance. Augustine draws freely from the insights and strategies of contextual analysis, close reading and critical theory in a bid to defamiliarize major texts of the period, from the poetry of young Milton to the brilliant works of adaptation, translation and bricolage that characterized Dryden's last decade. Muting the antagonisms and conflicts that have dominated previous accounts, Aesthetics of contingency thus proposes to write the literary history of this period anew. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 269 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526100762 9781526100764 |