The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Zwicker, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521564883 ISBN 13: 9780521564885

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Reprint, Cambridge University Press, 2004. Royal 8vo. xxiii, 334 p. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In very good portrait pictorial paperback gently rubbed to corners. 'This volume addresses English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature engaged the extremes of social, political, and sexual argument and experience.'

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Review:

."..offers a concise and engaged treatment of the literary and historical contexts surrounding the topic in question." Virginia Quarterly Review

."..succeeds nicely. Graduate students working up a topic--and professors working up a lecture--will find this volume most useful, but it is recommended for all academic collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521564883
• ISBN 13: 9780521564885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360