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Secular Chains - Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope (Paperback)
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Secular Chains - Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope (Paperback)
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Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account
of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy
between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and
intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual
authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study
reveals the importance of English literary culture for our
understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics
of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the
early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed
and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of
major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative
linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and
crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the
early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal
focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue
of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the
increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion
in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century.
Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled
condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688, and
the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a
range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox
free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains
demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry
and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides
a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period
in English literary history.
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