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The ten essays in Literature and the Arts explore the
intermedial plenitude of eighteenth-century English culture,
honoring the memory of James Anderson Winn, whose work demonstrated
how seeing that interplay of the arts and literature was essential
to a full understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century
English culture. Scenery, machinery, music, dance, and texts
transformed one another, both enriching and complicating generic
distinctions. Artists were alive to the power of the arts to
reflect and shape reality, and their audience was quick to turn to
the arts as performative pleasures and critical lenses through
which to understand a changing world. This collection's eminent
authors discuss estate design, musicalized theater, the visual
spectacle of musical performance, stage machinery and set designs,
the social uses of painting and singing, drama’s reflection of a
transformed military infrastructure, and the arts of memory and of
laughter.
Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell
(1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, combining the
best historical scholarship with a varied and ambitious programme
of cognitive, affective, and aesthetic inquiry. The essays have
been specially commissioned for the quatercentenary and include the
work of a range of scholars from Britain and North America.
Acknowledged masterpieces such as the 'Horatian Ode', 'The Garden',
and 'Upon Appleton House' are here read in light of historical and
material evidence that has emerged in recent decades. At the same
time, the volume offers many fresh points of entry into Marvell's
work, with particular attention to the poet's lyric economies,
Marvell's engagement with popular print, and, not least, the
polyglot and transnational dimensions of his writing. The
quatercentenary also represents an important anniversary for
Marvell studies, marking one hundred years since T. S. Eliot's
appreciation of the poet inaugurated modern Marvell criticism. As
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 reassesses Marvell's writings it
also reflects on the profession of English literature, taking stock
of the discipline itself, where it has been and where it might be
going as scholars continue to map the pleasures and challenges of
reading and re-reading Andrew Marvell.
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), the notorious
and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long
been considered an embodiment of the Restoration era. This
interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars focuses
new attention on, and brings fresh perspectives to, the writings of
Lord Rochester. Particular consideration is given to the political
force and social identity of Rochester's work, to the worlds -
courtly and theatrical, urban and suburban - from which Rochester's
poetry emerged and which it discloses, and not least to the
unsettling aesthetic power of Rochester's writing. The singularity
of Rochester's voice - his 'matchless wit' - has been widely
recognised; this book encourages the continued appreciation of all
the ways in which Rochester reveals the layered and promiscuous
character of literary projects throughout the whole of a brilliant,
abrasive, and miscellaneous age.
Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the
seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This
Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear
on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer
and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's
poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature
examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and
religion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both
manuscript and print. The essays, individually and collectively,
address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions and
communities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecology
of the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; his
opaque political and spiritual identities; his manners in
controversy and polemic; the character of his erotic and
transgressive imagination and his biography, still full of
intriguing gaps.
Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest English lyric poets of the
seventeenth century and one of its leading polemicists. This
Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear
on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer
and elusive man. Drawing on important new editions of Marvell's
poetry and of his prose, scholars of both history and literature
examine Marvell's work in the contexts of Restoration politics and
religion, and of the seventeenth-century publishing world in both
manuscript and print. The essays, individually and collectively,
address Marvell within his literary and cultural traditions and
communities; his almost prescient sense of the economy and ecology
of the country; his interest in visual arts and architecture; his
opaque political and spiritual identities; his manners in
controversy and polemic; the character of his erotic and
transgressive imagination and his biography, still full of
intriguing gaps.
This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a
variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate
acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth
through the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in
reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts
during the period. A team of expert contributors cover topics
including the processes of book production and distribution,
audiences and markets, the material text, the relation of print to
performance, and the politics of acts of reception. In addition,
the volume emphasises the independence of early modern readers and
their role in making meaning in an age in which increased literacy
equaled social enfranchisement and interpretation was power.
Meaning was not simply an authorial act but the work of many hands
and processes, from editing, printing, and proofing, to
reproducing, distributing, and finally reading.
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of
the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This
Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in
negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of
his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the
full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays
and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and
most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of
aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary
gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden's works are examined in the
context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of
authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the
Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden's life and times and
a detailed guide to further reading.
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of
the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This
Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in
negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of
his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the
full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays
and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and
most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of
aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary
gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden's works are examined in the
context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of
authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the
Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden's life and times and
a detailed guide to further reading.
This study ranges over private and public reading in a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities. It locates and charts specific historical moments of change in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts. Reputable contributors cover topics that include the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relationship of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception.
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
John Dryden; Edited by David Bywaters, Steven N. Zwicker; Introduction by David Bywaters, Steven N. Zwicker; Notes by …
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A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his time as Poet Laureate and loyal servant of the crown, including the Biblical allegory 'Absalom and Achitophel', in which the poet attacked those who intrigued against the King and earned himself a reputation for menace and a number of powerful enemies. His 'Works of Virgil' set the standard for the translation of Latin poetry. His last work, 'Fables Ancient and Modern' combined original verse and new translations, showing how he transformed the idioms and gestures of other voices and made them his own.
Focusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I
and the triumph of William III, Steven N. Zwicker reads English
literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical
contests. Zwicker juxtaposes overtly polemical writings-pamphlets,
broadsides, and ballads-with canonical works, including epic,
historical verse, tragedy, and satire, in order to demonstrate how
literature not only reflected on political action but also formed
an important site of political exchange. Zwicker maintains that the
sources of Restoration culture lay within the civil war years of
the 1640s and that the memory of those years shaped writing and
politics for the remainder of the century. In sensitive readings of
such classic texts as Walton's Compleat Angler, Marvell's First
Anniversary and Last Instructions, Milton's Paradise Lost, Dryden's
Annus Mirabilis and Absalom and Achitophel, and Locke's Two
Treatises of Government, he shows how these texts both engaged with
pamphlet, squib, and broadside and challenged one another over the
possession of cultural authority. Zwicker's analysis provides a new
understanding of the connections between politics and aesthetics in
the later seventeenth century and an appreciation for the texture
of this culture. Successfully integrating literary history and
political analysis, Lines of Authority will be valuable reading for
a broad audience in the fields of Restoration and Protectorate
literature, literary history, cultural and intellectual history,
and the history of political thought.
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of social, political and sexual experience. Newly-commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives in order to offer new insight into the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England in all its variety, from vitriolic satire to heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.
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