Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars - Couverture souple

Zhang, Rachel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1399524771 ISBN 13 : 9781399524773

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Exposes writers’ reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history

• Explores how writers’ use of constancy demonstrates their reliance on conservative language and forms even as they innovate rhetorically and generically
• Features both canonical and non-canonical writers, in both familiar and unfamiliar genres, describing an expanded early modern canon
• Highlights the period’s complexity: challenging monolithic terms like ‘royalist’, revealing dynamism of factions, and exposing English writers’ international outlook

Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars exposes writers’ reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history. In case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), it shows how the conservative language of "constancy" was used to justify opposing positions in the period’s most pressing controversies, including monarchical rule, ecclesiastical order, Catholicism, and England’s relationship to the wider world. At the same time, writers like John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Hester Pulter, Percy Herbert, and others establish the virtue’s importance to literary tradition, as they use "constancy" to retain, yet reimagine inherited formal structures and strategies. This book thus uses women’s writing and non-canonical texts to highlight cross-factional conservatism and international investment in what scholars often describe as the "English Revolution".

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rachel Dunn Zhang is an assistant professor of early modern literature at Emerson College. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Milton Studies, Ben Jonson Journal, Studies in Philology, Early Modern Women, The Seventeenth Century and Notes and Queries. An authority on Hester Pulter, Zhang is also a contributing editor and reviewer for The Pulter Project.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399524771
• ISBN 13: 9781399524773
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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• Personne responsable: non disponible