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Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685 (Hardcover)
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Dryden the Public Writer, 1660-1685 (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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This reinterpretation of Dryden's life and works shows how his
writings were influenced by important contemporaries, the power
struggles of Restoration politics, and the friendships and
rivalries of society. Professor McFadden sees Dryden's poems,
plays, and essays as forms of address immediately related to the
historical moment and the patron or dedicatee. This approach
created a dialogue between the writer and his age that enabled him
to interpret some of the deepest and still inchoate social and
political attitudes of his day. The author traces Dryden's rise to
notoriety, along with the development of the poetic techniques he
used to acquire and form his audience. Dryden's work for the
theater figures prominently in the analysis, including the
prologues, epilogues, and especially the dedications, which have
never before been exploited. Historical and biographical findings
lead Professor McFadden to new readings of major works, lie also
draws important conclusions bearing upon the genre of the heroic
play, the relationships between lampoon, satire, and comedy in
Restoration writing, and the sense in which the term "Augustan" may
be applied to that writing. Finally, he demonstrates that Dryden
was a writer in the fullest contemporary sense of the word: a
worker in language, carrying on a creative exchange with the
contingencies and forms of his time. Originally published in 1978.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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