Culture & Society Stuart Restoratn: Literature, Drama, History - Brossura

MacLean, Gerald

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ISBN 10: 052147566X ISBN 13: 9780521475662

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

What specifically distinguishes Restoration culture and society from what went before and came after? And how did early modern British women and men accommodate themselves to the dramatic historical changes of the seventeenth century? This study, which brings together recent work by leading historians as well as literary and cultural critics of the period, shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation.

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"The high level of scholarship now being produced is well represented in Gerald MacLean's new collection of essays....The book as a whole is well-presented..." D.R. Woolf, Dalhousie Review

"This entertaining collection of essays accomplishes two significant feats: it offers a strong set of individual pieces on particular late seventeenth-century writers that, when read together, invite one to speculate more generally on the ways in which 'the restoration' has been delineated and investigated by different academic disciplines....Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration handsomely delivers on its openeing promise to cause us to think more deeply about the ways in which individuals respond to dramatic national changes and the ways we study them." Margaret J. M. Ezell, Modern Philology

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How did women and men accommodate themselves to the dramatic changes of seventeenth-century Britain? This study by leading historians and literary and cultural critics shows how traditional forms of authority gave way to a literary culture geared to the new demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052147566X
• ISBN 13: 9780521475662
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312