Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature.

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cotterill, Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2004.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Digression (Rhetoric) in literature.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Rhetoric.
Ambivalence in literature.
Uncertainty in literature.
Ambiguity in literature.
Anxiety in literature.
Digression (Rhétorique) dans la littérature.
Anglais (Langue) > 1500-1700 (Moderne) > Rhétorique.
Ambivalence dans la littérature.
Incertitude dans la littérature.
Ambiguïté dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English language > Early modern > Rhetoric.
English literature > Early modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: To Wander 'out of the Common Road'; PART I. STRATEGIC SELF-SOUNDING: VOICES RAISED FROM THE DEAD; 1. The 'Motion in Corruption' of Donne's Anniversaries; PART II. SOUNDING INTERIOR GARDENS AT MID-CENTURY; 2. Marvell's Watery Maze at Nun Appleton; 3. 'Lights Framed Like Nets' in Sir Thomas Browne's Garden; 4. Eve's 'Grateful Digressions' and the Birth of Reflection; PART III. STRATEGIC SELF-SOUNDING: MYSTERY, MALICE, AND MASTERY OF A VOICE; 5. Feminine Disguise in The Hind and the Panther; 6. The Obscure Progress of Satire in Dryden's Late Preface.
  • Epilogue: Wandered too far? Swift's Monstrous VoiceBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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