Author: VariousPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
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Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Henry MorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Henry MorleyCharacter Writings of the 17th Century
Author: Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Henry MorleyPublisher: London, Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Author: Dr Nancy RosenfeldPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of the satanic form into a humanized form in the seventeenth century. This development is centered on characters and poetry of four seventeenth-century writers: the Satan character in John Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, the Tempter in John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Diabolus in Bunyan's The Holy War, the poetry of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode. The initial understanding of this development is through a sequential reading of Milton and Bunyan which examines the Satan character as an archetype-in-the-making, building upon each to work so that the character metamorphoses from a groveling serpent and fallen archangel to a humanized form embodying the human impulses necessary to commit evil. Rosenfeld then argues that this development continues in Restoration literature, showing that both Rochester and Etherege build upon their literary predecessors to develop the satanic figure towards greater humanity. Ultimately she demonstrates that these writers, taken collectively, have imbued Satan with the characteristics that define the human. This book includes as an epilogue a discussion of Samson in Milton's Samson Agonistes as a later seventeenth-century avatar of the humanized satanic form, providing an example for understanding a stock literary character in the light of early modern texts.
A Character of King Charles the Second:
Author: George Savile Marquis of HalifaxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Leopold von RankePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368718355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Seventeenth Century
Author: Graham ParryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131787109X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The seventeenth century was a period of immense turmoil. This book explores the methods by which a distinctive iconography was created for each Stuart king, describes the cultural life of the Civil War period and the Cromwellian Protectorate, and analyses the impact of the antiquarian movement which constructed a new sense of national identity. Through this detailed and fascinating discussion of seventeenth-century society, Graham Parry provides a clear insight into the many forces operating on the literature of the period.
London and the Seventeenth Century
Author: Margarette LincolnPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300258828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes, we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heart—the greatest city of its time.
Blood's Game
Author: Angus DonaldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499861710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
For fans of Conn Iggulden, Bernard Cornwell, Robyn Young and Ben Kane, comes the new historical series from the bestselling author of the Outlaw Chronicles. *This is FREE EBOOK SAMPLER for Angus Donald's thrilling brand-new novel BLOOD'S GAME* THE THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 'OUTLAW CHRONICLES'. AFTER THE TUDORS CAME THE STUARTS . . . London, Winter 1670. Holcroft Blood has entered the employ of the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the kingdom after the king. It is here that his education really begins. With a gift for numbers and decoding ciphers, Holcroft soon proves invaluable to the Duke, but when he's pushed into a betrayal he risks everything for revenge. His father, Colonel Thomas Blood, has fallen on hard times. A man used to fighting, he lives by his wits and survives by whatever means necessary. When he's asked to commit treason by stealing the crown jewels, he puts himself and his family in a dangerous situation - one that may end at the gallows. As the machinations of powerful men plot to secure the country's future, both father and son must learn what it is to survive in a more dangerous battlefield than war - the court of King Charles II. One false step could prove fatal . . .