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Lines of authority : politics and English literary culture, 1649-1689 /

Focusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I and the triumph of William III, Steven N. Zwicker reads English literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical contests. Zwicker juxtaposes overtly polemical writings-pamphlets, broadsides, and ballads-with canonica...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Zwicker, Steven N.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©1993.
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Table des matières:
  • 1. Poetics
  • 2. The king's head and the politics of literary property: the "Eikon Basilike" and "Eikonoklastes"
  • 3. Hunting and angling: "The compleat angler" and "The first anniversary"
  • 4. The politics of pleasure: "Annus Mirabilis", "The last instructions", "Paradise lost"
  • 5. Paternity, patriarchy, and the "noise of divine right": "Absalom and Achitophel" and "Two treatises of government"
  • 6. Representing the revolution: "Don Sebastian" and Williamite Panegyric.