The English civil wars loom large in seventeenth-century history
and literature. This period, which culminated in the execution of a
king, the dismantling of the Established Church, the inauguration
of a commonwealth, and the assumption of rule by a lord protector,
was one of profound change and disequilibrium. Focusing on writers
as major as Milton, Marvell, Herrick, and Vaughan, and as
misunderstood as Fane, Overton, and the poet Eliza, the fifteen
essays in this collection discuss not only the representation of
the civil wars but also the ways in which the civil wars were
anticipated, refigured, and refracted in the century's literary
imagination.
Although all of the essays are historically grounded and
critically based, they vary widely in their historical perspectives
and critical techniques, as well as in their scope and area of
concentration. Six of the essays are on Royalist literary figures,
six are on figures traditionally associated with the
Parliamentarian side of the civil wars, two consider both, and the
remaining essay examines how Royalist writers refashioned a puritan
literary trope.
Unified through the contributors' concentration on "moderate"
voices and their recurrent concerns with the ambiguities of
literary response, "The English Civil Wars in the Literary
Imagination" provides an important understanding of the English
civil wars' manifold and sometimes indirect presence in the
literature of the period.
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