Political turmoil : early modern British literature in transition, 1623-1660 / edited by Stephen B. Dobranski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobranski, Stephen B., editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Early modern literature in transition ; volume 2.

Early modern literature in transition ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Literature and society.

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

Politics and literature.

Great Britain.

History.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"The early modern period in Britain is defined by tremendous upheaval-gradual transformations and sometimes sudden reversals-most notably during the civil war years. Admittedly, all time periods could be classified as transitional, as conditions, institutions, and individuals constantly effect and experience various types of change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Writing the self / Sharon Cadman Seelig

Changing places and transitional spaces: plays, masques, and performances / Julie Sanders

Erotic and devotional verse / Stephen Guy-Bray

Kingdoms of the mind: epic forms, fragments, and translations / Anthony Welch

"Useful" books and mobile poems / Randall Ingram

The symbolism of anti-Calvinism / John Rumrich

Royalist writing and the trope of prison / Jerome de Groot

Shakespearean constitutions: literary culture and republicanism / Nicholas McDowell

"The best of texts": the death of Charles I / Stephen B. Dobranski

A British Caesar? representations of Oliver Cromwell / Laura Knoppers

An "Amsterdamnified" public sphere: English newsbooks, pamphleteering and polemic in European context / Jason Peacey

Affected and disaffected alike: women, print, and the problem of women's literary history / Lara Dodds

Imagining the scientific revolution in England / Katherine Calloway

Revitalizing nation and mind: the failed promise of seventeenth-century educational reform / Todd Butler

The end of friendship / Gregory Chaplin

Country matters / Verena Olejniczak Lobsien

Life during wartime: the writing of Civil War London / Christopher D'Addario

Nations in question: writing Scotland and Ireland / James Loxley

England, neo-Latin, and the continental journey / Estelle Haan

Global commerce and an emergent "empire of trade" / Stephen Deng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781108419642

110841964X

OCLC:

1050279595