Otherworldly John Dryden : Occult Rhetoric in His Poems and Plays.

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Reminding readers of John Dryden's persistent use of occult rhetoric, Armistead argues that Dryden's otherworldliness involves more than Christian apologetics, biblical typology, or intermittent borrowings from the supernatural materials in classical literature. Otherworldly John Dryden en...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Armistead, J. M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
©2014
Subjects:
Dryden, John, > 1631-1700 > Criticism and interpretation.
Dryden, John, > 1631-1700
Occultism in literature.
Occultisme dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Occultism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Early Poems, 1649-63; 2 The American Plays, 1664-65; 3 Annus Mirabilis and The Tempest, 1667; 4 Tyrannick Love and The Conquest of Granada, 1669-71; 5 The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe, and the Limits of Poetic Vision, 1674-77; 6 All for Love, 1677; 7 Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida, and The Spanish Fryar, 1678-80; 8 Absalom and Achitophel, The Medall, The Duke of Guise, and Albion and Albanius, 1681-85; 9 Later Public Poems, Elegies, and Poems about Art, 1685-96; 10 King Arthur, 1691; Conclusion: The Secular Masque, 1700.

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