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Order and Disorder (Hardcover)
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Order and Disorder (Hardcover)
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Order and Disorder, the first epic poem by an Englishwoman, has
never before been available in its entirety. The first five cantos
were printed anonymously in 1679, but fifteen further cantos
remained in manuscript, probably because they were so politically
sensitive. David Norbrook, widely recognized as a leading authority
on Renaissance literature and politics, has now attributed the work
to the republican, Lucy Hutchison. In this prestigious scholarly
volume, he provides a wealth of editorial matter, along with the
first full version of Order and Disorder ever to be published.
Order and Disorder shares much in common with 'Paradise Lost'. Both
poems use the Christian myth of man's fall as an analogy for
troubled times. Writing in similar circumstances to Milton, as a
republican whose hopes were shattered by the return of the monarchy
in 1660, Lucy Hutchinson also turned to the Book of Genesis as the
ultimate creation story. Vivid passages portraying the fall of
Babel, the Flood and the destruction of Sodom are edged with
hostility towards the Restoration political regime. The stories of
Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and
Rachel are interspersed with eloquent personal meditations on
divine and human justice, the natural world, and women's role. Lucy
Hutchinson is one of the most important women writers of the
seventeenth century; her other works include a classic political
biography, 'Memoirs of the Life of Colonel John Hutchinson', and
the first English translation of Lucretius's materialist epic, The
Nature of the Universe. Order and Disorder will be of particular
interest to scholars, students and general readers of
seventeenth-century poetry in general, of Milton in particular, of
Early Modern women's writing, and of Biblical narrative.
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