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This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate political allegories of this age, in the vitriol and bristling topicality of its satires as well as in the imaginative flight of its mock epics, fictions, and heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew.
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This volume explores literary culture in one of its most volatile periods when literature was interlinked with the social, political, and sexual scenes of the day. Covering the Restoration and early eighteenth century, writers examined include Milton, Marvell, Dryden, Rochester, Behn, Locke, Astell, Swift, Defoe, Pope, and Montagu. A wide range of genres from lyric and satire, and epic and heroic prose to music, theatre, and philosophy are all explored.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0521563798
- ISBN 13 9780521563796
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages358
- EditorZwicker Steven N.
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