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Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660-1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.
Sommario
Introduction: national transitions, literary transitions Elizabeth Sauer; Part I. Generic Transitions: 1. Pedantry and party politics: essays in the public sphere Denise Gigante; 2. 'Familiar things ... made new': epic and mock-epic verse, 1660-1714 Mark Blackwell; 3. The satiric contract David Rosen ¿and Aaron Santesso; 4. Tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy and the incubation of new genres: 1660-1714 Marcie Frank; 5. Travel literature and the emergent nation Clement Hawes; Part II. Ideological Transitions: 6. Literature, religion and party politics, 1660-1714 Melinda S. Zook; 7. The dissidence of dissent in late seventeenth-century English literature Elizabeth Sauer; 8. Power and profit: literature and the English commercial empire, 1651-1714 Ramesh Mallipeddi; 9. 'Heaven's center, nature's lap': literary models of nation and empire, 1660-1714 Suvir Kaul; 10. Brave new world: a Restoration debate Margaret Kean; Part III. Cultural Transitions: 11. Female wits and the late Stuart stage Bridget Orr; 12. Deregulating the libertine mind: wine, wit, and wanton fancy James Steintrager; 13. After libertinism: the passions of the polite Christian hero Christopher Tilmouth; 14. Chymistry, primary qualities, and empirical knowledge Helen Thompson; 15. Information and irony Sean Silver; Part IV. Local Transitions: 16. Nation and environment in Britain, 1660-1705 Robert Markley; 17. Creating the territories of recreation: parks, squares, and the exotic in London's little wilderness Kevin L. Cope; 18. Early English sinology, 1577-1688 William Poole; 19. John Dryden and Anne Killigrew: postmortems on the Restoration Jennifer Brady; ¿20. In defense of the short eighteenth century: 1714 as year zero Pat Rogers.
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Elizabeth Sauer, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) and Professor of English at Brock University, Ontario, is past President of the Milton Society of America. Recent publications include Women's Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain, co-ed. (forthcoming); Milton in the Americas, co-ed. (2017); Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood (Cambridge, 2014); The New Milton Criticism, co-ed. (Cambridge, 2012); Reading the Nation in English Literature co-ed. (2010); Milton and Toleration, co-ed. (2007; Milton Society of America book award); Milton and the Climates of Reading, ed. (2006; CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title); 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England (2005); and Reading Early Modern Women, co-ed. (2004, awarded SSEMW Best Collaborative Work).
Riassunto
This book enriches the fields of the Restoration and early eighteenth-century literary studies by integrating recent critical perspectives and reframing 1660–1714 as a period of radical emergence and a potentially generative coherence. Each of the twenty chapters captures the present state of the field while also advancing original, revisionary arguments.
