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John Dryden : a tercentenary miscellany / edited by Susan Green & Steven N. Zwicker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dryden, John.
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Tercentenary miscellany
- Place of Publication:
- San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, [2001]
- Summary:
- Essays on the most important poet of the seventeenth century by ten experts on Dryden's prose, poems, and plays, including James A. Winn, Phillip Harth, and Alan Roper. Individually, these pieces help us to rethink Dryden's encounter with the full range of political and cultural issues of his age: with the intricacies of court alliance, the temptations and dangers of empire, the dynamics of patronage and literary polemic, the frustrations of loyalism, and the twilight world of Roman Catholic recusancy he entered near the close of his century. Collectively these essays also urge us to reflect on the breadth and varied circumstances of Dryden's work and thereby on the chronology and character of early modernity, a category that often elides the Restoration and obscures its art.
- Contents:
- Ignoring The Tempest: Pepys, Dryden, and the Politics of Spectating in 1667 / Gavin Foster 5
- Cleopatra, Queen of the Seine: The Politics of Eroticism in Dryden's All for Love / Ann A. Huse 23
- The Double Logic of Don Sebastian / Richard Kroll 47
- Poetic Plate-Fleets and Universal Monarchy: The Heroic Plays and Empire in the Restoration / Bridget Orr 71
- Who's Who in Absalom and Achitophel? / Alan Roper 98
- John Dryden and the Battle of the Books / Michael Werth Gelber 139
- Past and Present in Dryden's Fables / James A. Winn 157
- "Our Lineal Descents and Clans": Dryden's Fables Ancient and Modern and Cultural Politics in the 1690s / Sean Walsh 175
- "Rebekah's Heir": Dryden's Late Mystery of Genealogy / Anne Cotterill 201
- The Text of Dryden's Poetry / Phillip Harth 229
- Historicism Gone Awry: Recent Work on John Dryden / David Bywaters 245.
- Notes:
- "Also published as the Huntington library quarterly, volume 63, numbers 1 and 2"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0873281942
- OCLC:
- 48613440
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