Author: James Runcieman SutherlandPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century
Author: James Runcieman SutherlandPublisher: Oxford : Clarendon P
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
English literature of the late Seventeenth Century
Author: James SutherlandEnglish Literature
Author: Hayden SpencerPublisher: Scientific e-Resources
ISBN: 1839472952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seventeenth-Century English Literature associates evolving seventeenth-century English perspectives of maternal support to the ascent of the cutting edge country, particularly in the vicinity of 1603 and 1675. Maternal sustain increases new noticeable quality in the early current social creative ability at the exact minute when England experiences a noteworthy change in perspective-from the customary, dynastic body politic, composed by natural bonds, to the post-dynastic, present day country, included representative and full of feeling relations. The book likewise exhibits that moving early present day points of view on Judeo-Christian relations profoundly educate the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal support and the country, particularly on account of Milton. Encircled by an understanding that the very idea of what characterizes the human is regularly impacted by Renaissance and early present day messages, this book sets up the start of the scholarly improvement of the evil frame into an adapted shape in the seventeenth century. This advancement is fixated on characters and verse of four seventeenth-century journalists: 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 verse of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester, and Dorimant in George Etherege's Man of Mode.
A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Author: Thomas N. CornsPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118835999
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690. Part of the major Blackwell History of English Literature series. Locates seventeenth-century English literature in its social and cultural contexts. Considers the physical conditions of literary production and consumption. Looks at the complex political, religious, cultural and social pressures on seventeenth-century writers. Features close critical engagement with major authors and texts Thomas Corns is a major international authority on Milton, the Caroline Court, and the political literature of the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
The Oxford History of English Literature
Author: James SutherlandThe 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.
"Cultures of Whiggism"
Author: David WomersleyPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In the preface to his edition of Shakespeare, Alexander Pope noted that his age was one of Parties, both in Wit and State. Much scholarship has been devoted to the complexities of the political parties of the eighteenth century, but there has been a surprising reluctance to explore what Pope implied were the corollaries of those parties, namely, parties in literature. The essays collected here explore the literary culture that arose from and supported what Pitt the Elder referred to as the great spirit of Whiggism that animated English politics during the eighteenth century. From the prehistory of Whiggism in the court of Charles II to the fractures opened up within it by the French Revolution in the 1790s, the interactions between Whiggish politics and literature are sampled and described in groundbreaking essays that range widely across the fields of eighteenth-century political prose, poetry, and the novel.
English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century
Author: James Runcieman SutherlandPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century ; VOL 6 OF OXFORD HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
Author: James Runcieman SutherlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Oxford history of English literature
Author: Frank Percy WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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