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Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate : culture, politics, and institutions / Edward Holberton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holberton, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Cromwell, Oliver.
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Literature and society.
- Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Social institutions in literature.
- Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate. This new account of the period focuses on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, Oxford University, Cromwell's state funeral - to examine this poetry's relationship with a culture in transformation and crisis. Edward Holberton shows that the Protectorate's instabilities helped to generate lively and innovative poetry. Protectorate verse explores the fault-lines of a culture which ceaselessly contested the authority of its own institutions, including the office o
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Bulstrode Whitelocke's Embassy to Sweden; 2. London's Triumphs and Civic Culture; 3. The Oxford Muses in the Protectorate; 4. The First Protectorate Parliament, Waller's A Panegyrick to My Lord Protector, and Marvell's The First Anniversary; 5. The Western Design; 6. 'Soe Honny from the Lyon came': Wedding Entertainments for the Protector's Daughters; 7. Oliver Cromwell's Legacy: Elegies, Funerals, and the Succession; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-242) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-156259-9
- 1-281-85327-5
- 9786611853273
- OCLC:
- 269363687
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