Exile and journey in seventeenth-century literature / Christopher D'Addario.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Addario, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dryden, John, 1631-1700.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.

Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Exile (Punishment) in literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

American literature--Puritan authors.

American literature.

Great Britain.

History.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism.

Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672--History and criticism.

Bradstreet, Anne.

Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679--History and criticism.

Hobbes, Thomas.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--History and criticism.

Milton, John.

Dryden, John, 1631-1700--History and criticism.

Dryden, John.

Physical Description:

viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century forced an unprecedented number of people to flee from England or to remain in internal exile. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. Christopher D'Addario explores how early modern authors reacted to and wrote about the experience of exile in relation both to their lost homeland and to the new communities they created for themselves. He analyzes the writings of first-generation New England Puritans, the Royalists in France during the English Civil War, and the "interior exiles" of John Milton and John Dryden. D'Addario explores the nature of artistic creation from the religious and political margins of early modern England, and, in doing so, provides detailed insight into the psychological and material pressures of displacement and a much overdue study of the importance of exile to the development of early modern literature.

Contents:

Nostalgia and nationalism in New England literature

Exile and the semantic education of Thomas Hobbes

The expulsion from Paradise : Milton, epic, and the Restoration exiles

Sybill's leaves : Dryden and the historiography of exile.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521870290

0521870291

OCLC:

76261716

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