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Pen for a Party - Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts (Paperback)
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Pen for a Party - Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign
of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and
several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on
this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems
Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall, and the dramatic works The
Duke of Guise and Albion and Albanius, have commonly been
considered in relation to such public events as the Popish Plot,
the Exclusion Crisis, and the Tory Reaction, but that approach does
not explain the noticeable differences among these works or the
specific purposes for which they were written. Harth argues that
the immediate contexts of these works were not the historical
events themselves but a constantly developing series of propaganda
offensives, both Tory and Whig, designed to influence public
opinion toward fluctuating conditions. Pen for a Party traces the
halting process by which the government of Charles II developed
propaganda as an effective instrument for gradually winning the
public's acquiescence in its divisive policies. It likewise shows
how Dryden fashioned his own works to meet the needs of this
propaganda campaign in each of its successive phases. Originally
published in 1993. 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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