Political turmoil : early modern British literature in transition, 1623-1660 /

The early modern period in Britain is defined by tremendous upheaval, gradual transformations and sometimes sudden reversals, most notably during the civil war years. Admittedly, all time periods could be classified as transitional, as conditions, institutions and individuals constantly effect and e...

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Other Authors: Dobranski, Stephen B. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Early modern literature in transition ; volume 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing the self / Sharon Cadman Seelig
  • Changing places and transitional spaces: plays, masques, and performances / Julie Sanders
  • Erotic and devotional verse / Stephen Guy-Bray
  • Kingdoms of the mind: epic forms, fragments, and translations / Anthony Welch
  • "Useful" books and mobile poems / Randall Ingram
  • The symbolism of anti-Calvinism / John Rumrich
  • Royalist writing and the trope of prison / Jerome de Groot
  • Shakespearean constitutions: literary culture and republicanism / Nicholas McDowell
  • "The best of texts": the death of Charles I / Stephen B. Dobranski
  • A British Caesar? representations of Oliver Cromwell / Laura Knoppers
  • An "Amsterdamnified" public sphere: English newsbooks, pamphleteering and polemic in European context / Jason Peacey
  • Affected and disaffected alike: women, print, and the problem of women's literary history / Lara Dodds
  • Imagining the scientific revolution in England / Katherine Calloway
  • Revitalizing nation and mind: the failed promise of seventeenth-century educational reform / Todd Butler
  • The end of friendship / Gregory Chaplin
  • Country matters / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien
  • Life during wartime: the writing of Civil War London / Christopher D'Addario
  • Nations in question: writing Scotland and Ireland / James Loxley
  • England, neo-Latin, and the continental journey / Estelle Haan
  • Global commerce and an emergent "empire of trade" / Stephen Deng.