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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2006
      17 September 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511999239
      9780521642521
      9780521645225
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521642523
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.62kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment were enacted and refigured in writing which both shaped and was shaped by the tumultuous times. The various strategies of this battle of the books are explored through essays on the course of events, intellectual trends and the publishing industry; in discussions of canonical figures such as Milton, Marvell, Bunyan and Clarendon; and in accounts of women's writing and of fictional and non-fictional prose. A full chronology, detailed guides to further reading and a glossary are included.

    Reviews

    "Collectively, these essays represent revisionist history at its best, because the innovative views their authors expound challenge previous assumptions and point to future lines of inquiry...Very highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty." CHOICE

    "The standard of these essyas is impeccable, and they fit together to yield a satisfying whole." Renaissance Quarterly

    "This book ably demonstrates the range of literary forms during the mid-seventeenth century, from the ephemeral to the canonical, and from the published to the unpublished." Seventeenth Century News

    "All in all, this is a useful volume." Albion

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