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Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution
Engelsk Hardback
Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
242
ISBN-13:
9780198861065
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0198861060
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2020
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
245mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2020
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