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Klappentext This book charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors; Introduction: 'Warre is all the world about' Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday; Part I. Definitions and Premonitions: 1. The very name of the game: theories of order and disorder Annabel Patterson; 2. A troubled Arcadia Graham Parry; Part II. Engagement or Retreat: 3. Politics and the masque: Salmacida Spolia Martin Butler; 4. Exploring the language of devotion in the English revolution Helen Wilcox; Part III. Truth and the Self: 5. In the wars of truth: violence, true knowledge and power in Milton and Hobbes Francis Barker; 6. 'Some rousing motions': the plurality of Miltonic ideologies Thomas N. Corns; 7. 'Mysteriously divided': Civil War, madness and the divided self Jonathan Sawday; Part IV. Interpreting the Present: 8. Marvell's 'Horatian Ode' and the politics of genre David Norbrook; 9. 'Dark all without it knits': vision and authority in Marvell's Upon Appleton House Thomas Healy; 10. History digested: opera and colonialism in the 1650s Susan J. Wiseman; 11. Cheap and common animals: the English anatomy of Ireland in the seventeenth century Patricia Coughlan; Part V. Aftermath: 12. 'The Colonel's Shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing, and the Civil War N. H. Keeble; 13. Exporting enthusiasm: John Perrot and the Quaker epic Nigel Smith; Index.
