Augustine Aesthetics of contingency

Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639–89
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2703-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and Restoration literature. Rather than sparking a decisive break with the past, for many the seventeenth-century’s civil wars opened onto a resolutely indeterminate future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Augustine, Matthew C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: remapping early modern literature
1. ‘He saw a greater Sun appear’: waiting for the apocalypse in Milton’s Poems 1645
2. ‘We goe to heaven against each others wills’: revising Religio Medici in the English Revolution
3. ‘But Iconoclastes drawn in little’: making and unmaking a Whig Marvell
4. ‘It had an odde promiscuous tone’: Lord Rochester and Restoration modernity
5. ‘Transprosing and Transversing’: religion, revolution, and the end of history in Dryden’s late works
6. Coda
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew C. Augustine is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews