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Examines how seventeenth-century literature engaged with - expressed, shaped, and was influenced by - the tumultuous period in which it was composed.
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Introduction: turmoil, political and otherwise; Part I. Generic Transitions: 1. Writing the self Sharon Cadman Seelig; 2. Changing places and transitional spaces: plays, masques, and performances Julie Sanders; 3. Erotic and devotional verse Stephen Guy-Bray; 4. Kingdoms of the mind: epic forms, fragments, and translations Anthony Welch; 5. 'Useful' books and mobile poems Randall Ingram; Part II. Literature and Ideological Transformation: 6. The symbolism of anti-Calvinism John Rumrich; 7. Royalist writing and the trope of prison Jerome de Groot; 8. Shakespearean constitutions: literary culture and republicanism Nicholas McDowell; 9. 'The best of texts': the death of Charles I Stephen B. Dobranski; 10. A British Caesar? Representations of Oliver Cromwell Laura Knoppers; Part III. Literature and Cultural Transformation: 11. An 'Amsterdamnified' public sphere: English newsbooks, pamphleteering and polemic in European context Jason Peacey; 12. Affected and disaffected alike: women, print, and the problem of women's literary history Lara Dodds; 13. Imagining the scientific revolution in England Katherine Calloway; 14. Revitalizing nation and mind: the failed promise of seventeenth-century educational reform Todd Butler; 15. The end of friendship Gregory Chaplin; Part IV. Literature and Local Transformation: 16. Country matters Verena Olejniczak Lobsien; 17. Life during wartime: the writing of civil war London Christopher D'Addario; 18. Nations in question: writing Scotland and Ireland James Loxley; 19. England, neo-Latin, and the continental journey Estelle Haan; 20. Global commerce and an emergent 'empire of trade' Stephen Deng.
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Stephen B. Dobranski is Distinguished University Professor of early modern literature at Georgia State University. His books include Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade (Cambridge, 1999), and Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), which received the English Studies Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He also authored A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: 'Samson Agonistes' (2009), which received the John T. Shawcross Award from the Milton Society of America. His most recent book is Milton's Visual Imagination: Imagery in 'Paradise Lost' (Cambridge, 2015).
Riassunto
The early seventeenth century in Britain is defined by tremendous upheaval, notably during the Civil War years. This book focuses on cultural and political transitions to discuss the 'how' and 'why' of aesthetic change. It offers an innovative and ambitious re-appraisal of a crucial period of British literature and history.
