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Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century
Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in
Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of
printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed
plays could be interpreted by royalist readers as texts of
resistance to the republic and protectoral governments
respectively. However, there were often discrepancies between the
aspirational content of these plays and the realities facing a
royalist party who had been defeated in the Civil Wars. Similarly,
plays with a classically republican Roman setting failed to offer a
successful model for the new republic. Consequently, writers who
supported the new republic and, eventually, Cromwell’s
protectoral government, proposed entertainments, based around the
concept of the sublime, whose purpose was to create political
amnesia in the audience, thereby nullifying any political
dissatisfaction with a non-monarchical form of government. This
volume will appeal to students and scholars of seventeenth-century
literature, and of the political history of 1640s and 1650s
Britain.
This edited collection explores the relationships between humans
and nature at a time when the traditional sense of separation
between human cultures and a natural wilderness is being eroded.
The 'Anthropocene,' whose literal translation is the 'Age of Man,'
is one way of marking these planetary changes to the Earth system.
Global climate change and rising sea levels are two prominent
examples of how nature can no longer be simply thought of as
something outside and removed from humans (and vice versa). This
collection applies the concepts of ecology and entanglement to
address pressing political, social, and cultural issues surrounding
human relationships with the nonhuman world in terms of 'working
with nature.' It asks, are there more or less preferable ways of
working with nature? What forms and practices might this work take
and how do we distinguish between them? Is the idea of 'nature'
even sufficient to approach such questions, or do we need to
reconsider using the term nature in favour of terms such as
environments, ecologies or the broad notion of the non-human world?
How might we forge perspectives and enact practices which build
resilience and community across species and spaces, constructing
relationships with nonhumans which go beyond discourses of
pollution, degradation and destruction? Bringing together a range
of contributors from across multiple academic disciplines,
activists and artists, this book examines how these questions might
help us understand and assess the different ways in which humans
transform, engage and interact with the nonhuman world.
Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his
republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime. In
his Second Defence of the English People (1654), reflecting on his
career as a prose writer, prior to embarking on the composition of
Paradise Lost, John Milton identified 'three varieties of liberty
without whichcivilized life is scarcely possible, namely
ecclesiastical liberty, domestic or personal liberty, and civil
liberty'. In retrospect he was able to find in his earlier writings
a systematic exposition of the grounds of freedom, and a commitment
to expanding its domain through publication and polemic. Taking
initiative from both the history of political thought and
historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive
from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the
conditions of liberty in Milton's writings, and the contested
development of his republicanism, through his career as a civil
servant and prose writer, through his great poems, to his
posthumous reputation and the appropriation of his works; and they
extend laterally to typologies of liberty, the realm of law,
prosody, and religious faith and persecution.Winner of the 2002
Irene Samuel Prize for best composite work onMilton. The
contributors are: THOMAS CORNS, JOHN CREASER, MARTIN DZELZAINIS,
KATSUHIRO ENGETSU, STEPEHN FALLON, BARBARA LEWALSKI, JANEL MUELLER,
CHRISTOPHER ORCHARD, GRAHAM PARRY, JOAD RAYMOND, JOHN RUMRICH,
QUENTIN SKINNER, ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN.GRAHAM PARRY is Professor of
English, University of York; JOAD RAYMOND lectures in the School of
English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.
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