Pen for a Party: Dryden's Tory Propaganda in Its Contexts - Rilegato

Harth, Phillip

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ISBN 10: 0691069727 ISBN 13: 9780691069722

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

Exploring the political climate during the final years of the reign of Charles II, when John Dryden wrote his great public poems and several of his dramatic works, Phillip Harth sheds new light on this writer's literary activity on behalf of the monarch. The poems Absalom and Achitophel and The Medall and the dramatic works The Duke of Guise and Albion and Albanius have commonly been considered in relation to such public events as the Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Tory Reaction, but that approach does not explain the noticeable differences among these works or the specific purposes for which they were written. Harth argues that the immediate contexts of these works were not the historical events themselves but a constantly developing series of propaganda offensives, both Tory and Whig, designed to influence public opinion toward fluctuating conditions.
Pen for a Party traces the halting process by which the government of Charles II developed propaganda as an effective instrument for gradually winning the public's acquiescence in its divisive policies. It likewise shows how Dryden fashioned his own works to meet the needs of this propaganda campaign in each of its successive phases.

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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
"Indeed, [Harth's] study is as much about the history of Tory ideology, a history in which Dryden is a critical figure, as it is about Dryden's literary production. Placing the composition of each work in its historical context, Hearth brings greater skill to bear on this task than any previous commentator."--American Historical Review

Contenuti

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Pulpit	3
Ch. 2	Parliament and the Press	18
Ch. 3	The Nation's Savior	62
Ch. 4	The Association	138
Ch. 5	A Second Restoration	206
	Epilogue	269
	Appendix 1: Political Allusions in Dryden's Prologues and Epilogues, 1678-1684	273
	Appendix 2: The Misplaced Lines in Absalom and Achitophel	279
	Abbreviations and Note on Documentation	286
	Notes	287
	Index	329

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0691069727
• ISBN 13: 9780691069722
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 341
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile