Familial Forms is the first full-length study to examine how
literary writers engaged the politics of genealogy that helped
define the "century of revolution." By demonstrating how conflicts
over the family-state analogy intersected with the period's battles
over succession, including: the ascent of James I, the execution of
Charles I, disputes over the terms of the Interregnum government,
the Restoration of Charles II, the Exclusion Crisis, the deposition
of James II, the ascent of William and Mary, and Anne's failure to
produce a surviving heir, this study provides a new map of the
seventeenth-century politics of family in England. Beginning with a
reconsideration of Jacobean patriarchalism, Familial Forms focuses
on the work of John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, John Dryden, and Mary
Astell. From their contrasting political and gendered positions,
these authors contemplated and contested the relevance of marriage
and kinship to government. Their writing illuminates two crucial
elements of England's conflicts. First, the formal qualities of
poems and prose tracts reveal that not only was there a competition
among different versions of the family-state analogy, but also a
competition over its very status as an analogy. Second, through
their negotiations of linear and nonlinear forms, Milton,
Hutchinson, Dryden, and Astell demonstrate the centrality of
temporality to the period's political battles. Through close
textual analysis of poetry, political tracts, parliamentary
records, and nonliterary genealogies, Familial Forms offers a fresh
understanding of the seventeenth-century politics of genealogy. It
also provides new answers to long-standing critical questions about
the poetic form of canonical works, such as Paradise Lost and
Absalom and Achitophel, and illuminates the political significance
of newly-canonical works by women writers, including Aemilia
Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeoreum, Hutchinson's Order and
Disorder, and Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Published
by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers
University Press.
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