Reimagining constancy in the English civil wars /
Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history.
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : polemic, genre, and inconstant constancy in the civil war period
- 1. Confronting (in)constancy in the country house poem
- 2. Love, oaths, and lyric paradox in the engagement crisis
- 3. Carnival of the animals : the competing constancies of Hester Pulter's emblems
- 4. Catholicism, romance, and inconstant constancy in Sir Percy Herbert's Princess Cloria
- 5. Cuckoo constancy? : paradise regained, the book of common prayer, and the revision of classical epic
- Epilogue: imagined ideals beyond the civil wars
- Appendix : character key for Princess Cloria (selected).