Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration
Literature, Drama, History

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Literature, culture, and society in Restoration England Gerald MacLean
Part I. Drama and Politics:
2. The quest for consensus the lord mayor's shows in the 1670s John Patrick Montano
3. Politics and the restoration masque the case of Dido and Aeneas Andrew Walkling
4. Factionary politics John Crowne's Henry VI Nancy Klein Maguire
Part II. Authorship and Authority:
5. Pepys and the private parts of monarchy James Grantham Turner
6. Milton, Samson Agonistes, and the Restoration Blair Worden
7. Milton, Dryden, and the politics of literary controversy Steven N. Zwicker
8. 'Is he like other men?' The meaning of the Principia Mathematica, and the author as idol Robert Iliffe
Part III. Women and Writing:
9. A woman's best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley Elaine Hobby
10. Obedient subjects? The loyal self in some later seventeenth-century women's memoirs N. H. Keeble
Part IV. Empire and Aftermaths:
11. Seventeenth-century Quaker women: displacement, colonialism, and anti-slavery discourse Moira Ferguson
12. Republicanism, absolutism and universal monarchy: English popular sentiment during the third Dutch war Steven C. A. Pincus
13. Reinterpreting the 'glorious revolution': Catharine Macaulay and radical response Bridget Hill.

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