The Oxford handbook of literature and the English Revolution / edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knoppers, Laura Lunger.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford handbooks of literature

[Oxford handbooks of literature]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

History.

Great Britain--History--Revolution of 1688--Literature and the revolution.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 715 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Literature and the English Revolution

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Includes thirty-seven new chapters written by leading international scholars on the issues, contexts, and texts of the English Revolution, Displays an interdisciplinary approach drawing on literature, history, religion, print culture, the history of reading, and women's writing, Chapters engage not only scholarly debates about the causes and effects of the English Revolution, but also broader historical and theoretical conversations about propaganda and print history, political opinion and the public sphere, early readers, literary history, history of genres, and women's roles in society, Provides a news lens on the literature of the civil war, situating canonical literary texts in their precise political, religious, and cultural contexts Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I England at Home and in the World

1 England, Europe, and the English Revolution / Nigel Smith Smith, Nigel 29

2 Three Kingdoms / Eamon Darcy Darcy, Eamon 44

3 British Atlantic World / Carla Gardina Pestana Pestana, Carla Gardina 65

4 Political Thought / Glenn Burgess Burgess, Glenn 80

5 Religion / John Coffey Coffey, John 98

6 Literature, Medicine, and Science / Karen L. Edwards Edwards, Karen L. 118

7 The Book Trade, Licensing, and Censorship / Jason McElligott McElligott, Jason 135

8 Society and the Roles of Women / Ann Hughes Hughes, Ann 154

Part II Civil Wars

9 News, Pamphlets, and Public Opinion / Jason Peacey Peacey, Jason 173

10 Principle and Politics in Milton's Areopagitica / Stephen B. Dobranski Dobranski, Stephen B. 190

11 The Personal Rule of Poets: Cavalier Poetry and the English Revolution / Ann Baynes Coiro Coiro, Ann Baynes 206

12 Civil War Letters and Diaries and the Rhetoric of Experience / Helen Wilcox Wilcox, Helen 238

13 Marvell among the Cavaliers / Nicholas McDowell McDowell, Nicholas 253

14 The Levellers: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, and William Walwyn / Rachel Foxley Foxley, Rachel 272

Part III Regicide and Republic

15 Eikon Basilike: The Printing, Composition, Strategy, and Impact of 'The King's Book' / Robert Wilcher Wilcher, Robert 289

16 Nascent Republican Theory in Milton's Regicide Prose / Stephen M. Fallon Fallon, Stephen M. 309

17 Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers / David Loewenstein Loewenstein, David 327

18 Abiezer Coppe and the Ranters / Ariel Hessayon Hessayon, Ariel 346

19 Marchamont Nedham / Joad Raymond Raymond, Joad 375

20 The Claims of a 'Civil Science': Hobbes's Leviathan / James Loxley Loxley, James 394

21 Henry Vaughan and Thomas Vaughan: Welsh Anglicanism, 'Chymick', and the English Revolution / Nigel Smith Smith, Nigel 409

22 Conversion Narratives in Old and New England / Kathleen Lynch Lynch, Kathleen 425

Part IV Protectorate

23 Milton's Defences and the Principle of 'Sanior Pars' / Elizabeth Sauer Sauer, Elizabeth 445

24 Prophecy and Political Expression in Cromwellian England / Katharine Gillespie Gillespie, Katharine 462

25 Marvell among the Cromwellians / Nicholas McDowell McDowell, Nicholas 481

26 Countering Anti-theatricality: Davenant and the Drama of the Protectorate / Janet Clare Clare, Janet 498

27 Printed Recipe Books in Medical, Political, and Scientific Contexts / Elizabeth Spiller Spiller, Elizabeth 516

28 James Harrington's The Commonwealth of Oceana and the Republican Tradition / Rachel Hammersley Hammersley, Rachel 534

29 The Political Ideologies of Revolutionary Prose Romance / Amelia Zurcher Zurcher, Amelia 551

30 Quakers and the Culture of Print in the 1650s / Kate Peters Peters, Kate 567

Part V Restoration

31 Lament for a Nation? Milton's Readie and Easie Way and the Turn to Satire / Paul Stevens Stevens, Paul 593

32 The Early Poetry of John Dryden / Thomas N. Corns Corns, Thomas N. 611

33 Say First, What Cause? The Origins of Paradise Lost / Annabel Patterson Patterson, Annabel 624

34 Acephalous Authority: Satire in Butler, Marvell, and Dryden / Clement Hawes Hawes, Clement 639

35 The Consolation of Natural Philosophy: Margaret Cavendish and the English Revolution / Rachel Trubowitz Trubowitz, Rachel 656

36 Family and Commonwealth in the Writings of Lucy Hutchinson / Shannon Miller Miller, Shannon 669

37 'Out of the spoils won in Battel': John Bunyan / N. H. Keeble Keeble, N. H. 686.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199560608

0199560609

OCLC:

806198393