Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740

Name: Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740
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ISBN: 9780521564885

ISBN-10: 0521564883

ISBN-13: 9780521564885

Edition: 1998

Authors: Steven N. Zwicker, Margaret Anne Doody, Michael Seidel, Paul Hammond, James Anderson Winn

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Description:

This volume offers an account of English literary culture during the Restoration and the early 18th century. Included are chronologies and bibliographies to guide the reader through texts and events.

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/18/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Preface


Chronologies



Contexts and Modes



England 1649-1750: differences contained?




Satire, lampoon, libel, slander




Gender, literature, and gendering literature in the Restoration




Theatrical culture I: politics and theatre




Theatrical culture II: theatre and music




Lyric forms




Classical texts: translations and transformations




Writers



'This Islands watchful Centinel': anti-Catholicism and proto-Whiggery




John Dryden




Earl of Rochester Ros Ballaster




The authorial ciphers of Aphra




Swift, Defoe, and narrative forms




Mary Astell and John Locke




Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and the literature of social comment



Index