Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars / Rachel Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, H. (Huqiu), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

Exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Polemic, Genre, and Inconstant Constancy in the Civil War Period

1. Confronting (In)Constancy in the Country House Poem

2. Love, Oaths, and Lyric Paradox in the Engagement Crisis

3. Carnival of the Animals: The Competing Constancies of Hester Pulter's Emblems

4. Catholicism, Romance, and Inconstant Constancy in Sir Percy Herbert's Princess Cloria

5. Cuckoo Constancy? Paradise Regained, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Revision of Classical Epic

Epilogue: Imagined Ideals beyond the Civil Wars

Appendix: Character Key for Princess Cloria (Selected)

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-3995-2479-8

1-3995-2478-X