Poetry And Sovereignty In The English Revolution

Author : Niall Allsopp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605238

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Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution by Niall Allsopp Pdf

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly secular, artificial, and absolutist ways. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 royalists who had sided with the King were left with a significant vacuum to fill. Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution charts the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, William Davenant, Abraham Cowley, and Margaret Cavendish amongst others in this period. It examines the poets' close acquaintance with Thomas Hobbes, offering new readings of the reception and adaptation of Hobbes's ideas in contemporary poetry. A final chapter traces how the poets survived the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, showing how they continued to apply their ideas in the heroic drama of the 1660s. Poetry and Sovereigniy in the English Revolution builds on recent work in both literary criticism and the history of political thought to contextualize royalist poets within a distinctive strain of absolutism inflected by reason of state, neostoicism, scepticism, and anticlericalism. It demonstrates a vivid poetic effort to imagine the expanded state delivered by the English Revolution.

Author : Niall Allsopp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198861065

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Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution by Niall Allsopp Pdf

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly secular, artificial, and absolutist ways. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 royalists who had sided with the King were left with a significant vacuum to fill. Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution charts the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, William Davenant, Abraham Cowley, and Margaret Cavendish amongst others in this period. It examines the poets' close acquaintance with Thomas Hobbes, offering new readings of the reception and adaptation of Hobbes's ideas in contemporary poetry. A final chapter traces how the poets survived the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, showing how they continued to apply their ideas in the heroic drama of the 1660s. Poetry and Sovereigniy in the English Revolution builds on recent work in both literary criticism and the history of political thought to contextualize royalist poets within a distinctive strain of absolutism inflected by reason of state, neostoicism, scepticism, and anticlericalism. It demonstrates a vivid poetic effort to imagine the expanded state delivered by the English Revolution.

Author : Deni Kasa
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503638310

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The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature by Deni Kasa Pdf

This book tells the story of how early modern poets used the theological concept of grace to reimagine their political communities. The Protestant belief that salvation was due to sola gratia, or grace alone, was originally meant to inspire religious reform. But, as Deni Kasa shows, poets of the period used grace to interrogate the most important political problems of their time, from empire and gender to civil war and poetic authority. Kasa examines how four writers—John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, and Abraham Cowley—used the promise of grace to develop idealized imagined communities, and not always egalitarian ones. Kasa analyzes the uses of grace to make new space for individual and collective agency in the period, but also to validate domination and inequality, with poets and the educated elite inserted as mediators between the gift of grace and the rest of the people. Offering a literary history of politics in a pre-secular age, Kasa shows that early modern poets mapped salvation onto the most important conflicts of their time in ways missed by literary critics and historians of political thought. Grace, Kasa demonstrates, was an important means of expression and a way to imagine impossible political ideals.

Author : a foreword by Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351921916

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Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690 by a foreword by Lisa Jardine Pdf

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.

Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029461525

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Milton by Perez Zagorin Pdf

The author presents an account of Milton's political philosophy set in the closest relationship to his personal and intellectual history as a political man during the English revolution, the decisive event of his life and time. He follows Milton's mind in its political manifestations from his earlier poetry before the outbreak of revolt against the Stuart monarchy, through his activity as a passionate partisan and revolutionary publicist in the decades 1640-1660, to his final work as an epic poet following the revolution's failure and the restoration of Charles II in 1660.

Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277360

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Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688 by Mark Goldie Pdf

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book explores the debates in Restoration England about "godly rule". The book assesses some of the crucial transitions in English history: how the late Reformation gave way to the early Enlightenment; how Royalism became Toryism and Puritanism became Whiggism; how the power of churchmen was challenged by virulent anticlericalism; how the verities of "divine right" theory revived and collapsed. Providing a distinctive account of English thought in the era between the two revolutions of the Stuart century, "Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688" discusses the ideological foundations of emerging party politics, and the deep intellectual roots of competing visions for the commonwealth, placing the power of religion, and the taming of religion, squarely alongside constitutional battles within secular politics.

Author : Matthew C. Augustine,Giulio J. Pertile,Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192884725

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Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 by Matthew C. Augustine,Giulio J. Pertile,Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, combining the best historical scholarship with a varied and ambitious programme of cognitive, affective, and aesthetic inquiry. The essays have been specially commissioned for the quatercentenary and include the work of a range of scholars from Britain and North America. Acknowledged masterpieces such as the 'Horatian Ode', 'The Garden', and 'Upon Appleton House' are here read in light of historical and material evidence that has emerged in recent decades. At the same time, the volume offers many fresh points of entry into Marvell's work, with particular attention to the poet's lyric economies, Marvell's engagement with popular print, and, not least, the polyglot and transnational dimensions of his writing. The quatercentenary also represents an important anniversary for Marvell studies, marking one hundred years since T. S. Eliot's appreciation of the poet inaugurated modern Marvell criticism. As Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400 reassesses Marvell's writings it also reflects on the profession of English literature, taking stock of the discipline itself, where it has been and where it might be going as scholars continue to map the pleasures and challenges of reading and re-reading Andrew Marvell.

Author : J. Loxley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230389199

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Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars by J. Loxley Pdf

English literary history has long incorporated the category of 'Cavalier' verse, and the critical presuppositions that have shaped such a category continue, even now, to determine the ways in which much civil war writing is read. Through a detailed study of both manuscript and printed texts, James Loxley arrives at an account of the interaction between poetry and royalist political activity which for the first time presents a sustained and coherent challenge to such presuppositions.

Author : Winthrop Sargent
Publisher : [Philadelphia : s.n.], 1857 (Philadelphia : Collins, printer)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
ISBN : UCD:31175000932148

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The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution by Winthrop Sargent Pdf

Author : Martin Kallich
Publisher : Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015859775

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British Poetry and the American Revolution by Martin Kallich Pdf

Author : Winthrop Sargent
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375167820

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The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution by Winthrop Sargent Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Author : Albert Elmer Hancock
Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014145902

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The French Revolution and the English Poets by Albert Elmer Hancock Pdf

Author : Franca Dellarosa
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387481

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Talking Revolution by Franca Dellarosa Pdf

This study sheds light on a major and until now little studied Liverpool writer, Edward Rushton (1782-1814), whose politics and poetics were imbued in the most pressing events and debates shaking the world during the Age of Revolution.

Author : Albert Elmer Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296195600

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The French Revolution and the English Poets - Scholar's Choice Edition by Albert Elmer Hancock Pdf

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Author : Peter Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047457273

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Poetry and Revolution by Peter Davidson Pdf

A completely new examination of mid-seventeenth-century verse from the British Islands, this work questions and discards the old label "Cavalier Poetry" and argues for a literary interpretation that demonstrates the verse as a canon rich in tumultuous, pluralistic, and radical writing.