Familial Forms : Politics and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century English Literature / Erin Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Erin, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Politics and literature.

Genealogy--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Genealogy.

Families--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Families.

Genealogy in literature.

Families in literature.

Inheritance and succession in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : University of Delaware Press, [2011]

Summary:

This book explores the intricate relationship between family and politics in the seventeenth century, examining the analogy between the family and the state. It delves into the political power of family, focusing on the works of Milton, Hutchinson, Dryden, and Astell. The study highlights how literary and non-literary texts of the period addressed the unstable distinction between public and private spheres and the concept of hereditary succession. The author argues that these writers used family-state analogies to address political and temporal challenges. The book is intended for scholars and students of literature, history, and political theory, providing a nuanced understanding of seventeenth-century political temporality and the genealogical imaginary. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Familial Forms

I Assessing the Politics of Genealogy

1 The Jesuit, the King, and a Lady: Form and Jacobean Patriarchalism

II John Milton’s Family Politics from Charles I to Charles II

2 Denying Patricide, Defining the Domestic

3 Copulating with the Mother: Paradise Lost and the Politics of Begetting

4 Milton’s “Birth Abortive”: Remaking Family at the End of Paradise Lost

III Chasing Shadows: Reproductive Time in the Exclusion Crisis

5 Haunted Times

6 Cheating “Death’s Vast Jaws”: The Troubled Promise of Reproduction in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder

7 “In His Son Renew’d”: Resisting Reproduction in John Dryden’sAbsalom and Achitophel

IV Beyond the Family-State Analogy: Reconsidering Genealogy

8 A World “without Father or Mother”: Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Conclusion

Notes

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Print version: Murphy, Erin Familial Forms

ISBN:

9781644531556

OCLC:

1446135196