Political Turmoil Early Modern British Literature In Transition 1623 1660 Volume 2

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110841964X

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Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660: Volume 2 by Stephen B. Dobranski Pdf

The early modern period in Britain was defined by tremendous upheaval - the upending of monarchy, the unsettling of church doctrine, and the pursuit of a new method of inquiry based on an inductive experimental model. Political Turmoil: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 offers an innovative and ambitious re-appraisal of seventeenth-century British literature and history. Each of the contributors attempts to address the 'how' and 'why' of aesthetic change by focusing on political and cultural transformations. Instead of forging a grand narrative of continuity, the contributors attempt to piece together the often complex web of factors and events that contributed to developments in literary form and matter - as well as the social and religious changes that literature sometimes helped to occasion. These twenty chapters, reading across traditional periodization, demonstrate that early modern literary works - when they were conceived, as they were created, and after they circulated - were, above all, involved in various types of transitions.

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1108411509

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Political Turmoil by Stephen B. Dobranski Pdf

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110841964X

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Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660: by Stephen B. Dobranski Pdf

The early modern period in Britain was defined by tremendous upheaval - the upending of monarchy, the unsettling of church doctrine, and the pursuit of a new method of inquiry based on an inductive experimental model. Political Turmoil: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 offers an innovative and ambitious re-appraisal of seventeenth-century British literature and history. Each of the contributors attempts to address the 'how' and 'why' of aesthetic change by focusing on political and cultural transformations. Instead of forging a grand narrative of continuity, the contributors attempt to piece together the often complex web of factors and events that contributed to developments in literary form and matter - as well as the social and religious changes that literature sometimes helped to occasion. These twenty chapters, reading across traditional periodization, demonstrate that early modern literary works - when they were conceived, as they were created, and after they circulated - were, above all, involved in various types of transitions.

Author : Christopher Orchard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000895087

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Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain by Christopher Orchard Pdf

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entertainments, 1649–1658 describes the function of printed drama in 1650s Britain. After the regicide of 1649, printed plays could be interpreted by royalist readers as texts of resistance to the republic and protectoral governments respectively. However, there were often discrepancies between the aspirational content of these plays and the realities facing a royalist party who had been defeated in the Civil Wars. Similarly, plays with a classically republican Roman setting failed to offer a successful model for the new republic. Consequently, writers who supported the new republic and, eventually, Cromwell’s protectoral government, proposed entertainments, based around the concept of the sublime, whose purpose was to create political amnesia in the audience, thereby nullifying any political dissatisfaction with a non-monarchical form of government. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, and of the political history of 1640s and 1650s Britain.

Author : Katherine Calloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009415279

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Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England by Katherine Calloway Pdf

Exploring the diverse forms of natural theology expressed in seventeenth-century English literature, Katherine Calloway reveals how, in ways only partially recognized until now, authors such as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Cavendish, Hutchinson, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan describe, challenge, and even practice natural theology in their poetry.

Author : Debapriya Sarkar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512823363

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Possible Knowledge by Debapriya Sarkar Pdf

The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature--what early moderns termed poesie--in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing how problems of epistemology are inextricable from questions of literary form, Sarkar offers a defense of poiesis, or literary making, as a vital philosophical endeavor. Working across a range of genres, Sarkar theorizes "possible knowledge" as an intellectual paradigm crafted in and through literary form. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers such as Spenser, Bacon, Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Milton marshalled the capacious concept of the "possible," defined by Philip Sidney as what "may be and should be," to construct new theories of physical and metaphysical reality. These early modern thinkers mobilized the imaginative habits of thought constitutive to major genres of literary writing--including epic, tragedy, romance, lyric, and utopia--in order to produce knowledge divorced from historical truth and empirical fact by envisioning states of being untethered from "nature" or reality. Approaching imaginative modes such as hypothesis, conjecture, prediction, and counterfactuals as instruments of possible knowledge, Sarkar exposes how the speculative allure of the "possible" lurks within scientific experiment, induction, and theories of probability. In showing how early modern literary writing sought to grapple with the challenge of forging knowledge in an uncertain, perhaps even incomprehensible world, Possible Knowledge also highlights its most audacious intellectual ambition: its claim that while natural philosophy, or what we today term science, might explain the physical world, literature could remake reality. Enacting a history of ideas that centers literary studies, Possible Knowledge suggests that what we have termed a history of science might ultimately be a history of the imagination.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108838979

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As You Like It by William Shakespeare Pdf

Includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, stage productions and films of the play, as well as fresh illustrations.

Author : Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108436862

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Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714: Volume 3 by Elizabeth Sauer Pdf

The years 1660 to 1714 represent a fraught transitional period, one caught between two now dominant periodization rubrics: early modern and the long eighteenth century. Containing narratives of disruption, restoration, and reconfiguration, Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714 explores the conjunctions and disjunctions between historical and literary developments in this period, when the sociable, rivalrous textual world of letters registered and accelerated changes. Each of the volume's four parts highlights the relationship of various literary forms to a different kind of transformation - generic, ideological, cultural, or local. The five chapters in each section rigorously probe the conditions that affected the period's literary transformations, and interrogate the traditions that canonical and less established writers inherited, adapted, and often challenged. In making a case for an early mimetically produced English nation, this book, through its concentration on literary evidence and transitions also makes innovative contributions to an understanding of nationalism in the period.

Author : Gillian Wright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493970

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The Restoration Transposed by Gillian Wright Pdf

An innovative account of the literary Restoration that stresses its diversity, historical self-awareness, and openness to new voices.

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521898188

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The Cambridge Introduction to Milton by Stephen B. Dobranski Pdf

This book makes Milton's works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.

Author : Henry Neville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734046971

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The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Isle of Pines (1668) by Henry Neville

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107094390

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Milton's Visual Imagination by Stephen B. Dobranski Pdf

Milton's Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139828161

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The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism by James Warren Pdf

This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics and politics. The international team of contributors includes scholars who have produced innovative and original research in various areas of Epicurean thought and they have produced essays which are accessible and of interest to philosophers, classicists, and anyone concerned with the diversity and preoccupations of Epicurean philosophy and the state of academic research in this field. The volume emphasises the interrelation of the different areas of the Epicureans' philosophical interests while also drawing attention to points of interpretative difficulty and controversy.

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015111

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Early Modern Britain, 1450-1750 by John Miller Pdf

A wide-ranging survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain, offering a fully integrated four-nation perspective.

Author : Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107180697

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A History of Law in Europe by Antonio Padoa-Schioppa Pdf

The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.