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Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660 (Paperback, New Ed)
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The years of the Civil War and Interregnum have usually been
marginalised as a literary period. This wide-ranging and highly
original study demonstrates that these central years of the
seventeenth century were a turning point, not only in the
political, social and religious history of the nation, but also in
the use and meaning of language and literature. At a time of crisis
and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new
functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of
religious and political authority. For English people, Smith
argues, the upheaval in divine and secular authority provided both
motive and opportunity for transformations in the nature and
meaning of literary expression. The increase in pamphleteering and
journalism brought a new awareness of print; with it existing ideas
of authorship and authority collapsed. Through literature, people
revised their understanding of themselves and attempted to
transform their predicament. Smith examines literary output ranging
from the obvious masterworks of the age - Milton's Paradise Lost,
Hobbes's Leviathan, Marvell's poetry - to a host of less well-known
writings. He examines the contents of manuscripts and newsbooks
sold on the streets, published drama, epics and romances, love
poetry, praise poetry, psalms and hymns, satire in prose and verse,
fishing manuals, histories. He analyses the cant and babble of
religious polemic and the language of political controversy,
demonstrating how, as literary genres changed and disintegrated,
they often acquired vital new life. Ranging further than any other
work on this period, and with a narrative rich in allusion, the
book explores the impact of politics on the practiceof writing and
the role of literature in the process of historical change.
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