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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

D'Addario, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

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.

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

Literature and society.

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

American literature.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Exile & Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused an unprecedented number of people to emigrate, voluntarily or not, from England. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. In this 2007 book, Christopher D'Addario explores how early modern authors thought and wrote about the experience of exile in relation both to their lost homeland and to the new communities they created for themselves abroad. He analyses 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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17161-X

1-280-90944-7

0-511-28622-8

0-511-28548-5

0-511-28388-1

0-511-32109-0

0-511-48354-6

0-511-28468-3

OCLC:

476062826