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Ravishment of Reason presents a new contextual framework for the study of Restoration drama, demonstrating the important cultural work performed by the restored theaters in offering versions of political theory that mediated between older notions of thaumaturgic authority and proto-modern forms of government premised upon autonomy and contract.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
One: "Heroicall Pictures": Government and the Restoration Heroic Play
Two: "New Rights we Grant not, but the Old Declare": History, Friendship, and Consent in Roger Boyle's Henry V (1664)
Three: "Tis All but Ceremony Which Is Past": Conversion and Heroic Passions in John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada, Parts One and Two (1670-1672)
Four: Shakespeare's History Lesson: John Crowne's Misery of Civil War (1680)
Five: "Cajoling the People with his Known Industry": The Passions and Spectacular Politics in Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus
Six: The Politics of Cowardice: Fear, Interest, and Security in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter (1689)
Seven: "Half Loath and Half Consenting": Interpretive Relativism and Incest in John Dryden's Don Sebastian (1690)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Brandon Chua is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland node of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800), where he is currently researching the literary culture of the English 1650s in relation to the civil wars and Interregnum. He also teaches early modern and eighteenth-century literature at The University of Queensland.
Summary
Ravishment of Reason presents a new contextual framework for the study of Restoration drama, demonstrating the important cultural work performed by the restored theaters in offering versions of political theory that mediated between older notions of thaumaturgic authority and proto-modern forms of government premised upon autonomy and contract.
