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The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven
new essays by an international team of literary critics and
historians on the writings generated by the tumultuous events of
mid-seventeenth-century England. Unprecedented events-civil war,
regicide, the abolition of monarchy, proscription of episcopacy,
constitutional experiment, and finally the return of monarchy-led
to an unprecedented outpouring of texts, including new and
transformed literary genres and techniques. The Handbook provides
up-to-date scholarship on current issues as well as historical
information, textual analysis, and bibliographical tools to help
readers understand and appreciate the bold and indeed revolutionary
character of writing in mid-seventeenth-century England. The volume
is innovative in its attention to the literary and aesthetic
aspects of a wide range of political and religious writing, as well
as in its demonstration of how literary texts register the
political pressures of their time. Opening with essential
contextual chapters on religion, politics, society, and culture,
the largely chronological subsequent chapters analyse particular
voices, texts, and genres as they respond to revolutionary events.
Attention is given to aesthetic qualities, as well as to bold
political and religious ideas, in such writers as James Harrington,
Marchamont Nedham, Thomas Hobbes, Gerrard Winstanley, John
Lilburne, and Abiezer Coppe. At the same time, the revolutionary
political context sheds new light on such well-known literary
writers as John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Henry
Vaughan, William Davenant, John Dryden, Lucy Hutchinson, Margaret
Cavendish, and John Bunyan. Overall, the volume provides an
indispensable guide to the innovative and exciting texts of the
English Revolution and reevaluates its long-term cultural impact.
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