The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

doi:10.1017/CCOL0521563798

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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Frontmatter
pp i-xxiv
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Part 1 - Contexts and modes
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1 - England 1649-1750
pp 3-32
- By John Spurr
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2 - Satire, lampoon, libel, slander
pp 33-57
- By Michael Seidel
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3 - Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration
pp 58-81
- By Margaret A. Doody
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4 - Theatrical culture 1
pp 82-103
- By Jessica Munns
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5 - Theatrical culture 2
pp 104-119
- By James A. Winn
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6 - Lyric forms
pp 120-142
- By Joshua Scodel
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7 - Classical texts
pp 143-162
- By Paul Hammond
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Part 2 - Writers
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8 - This Islands watchful Centinel
pp 165-184
- By Cedric C. Brown
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9 - John Dryden
pp 185-203
- By Steven N. Zwicker
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10 - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
pp 204-224
- By Ros Ballaster
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11 - The authorial ciphers of Aphra Behn
pp 225-249
- By Margaret Ferguson
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12 - Swift, Defoe, and narrative forms
pp 250-275
- By John Mullan
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13 - Mary Astell and John Locke
pp 276-306
- By Patricia Springborg
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14 - Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the literature of social comment
pp 307-329
- By Donna Landry
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Index
pp 330-334
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Frontmatter
pp i-xxiv

Part 1 - Contexts and modes

1 - England 1649-1750
pp 3-32

2 - Satire, lampoon, libel, slander
pp 33-57

3 - Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration
pp 58-81

4 - Theatrical culture 1
pp 82-103

5 - Theatrical culture 2
pp 104-119

6 - Lyric forms
pp 120-142

7 - Classical texts
pp 143-162

Part 2 - Writers

8 - This Islands watchful Centinel
pp 165-184

9 - John Dryden
pp 185-203

10 - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
pp 204-224

11 - The authorial ciphers of Aphra Behn
pp 225-249

12 - Swift, Defoe, and narrative forms
pp 250-275

13 - Mary Astell and John Locke
pp 276-306

14 - Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the literature of social comment
pp 307-329

Index
pp 330-334

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