Aesthetics of contingency: Writing, politics, and culture in England, 1639-89 - Couverture rigide

Augustine, Matthew C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1526100762 ISBN 13 : 9781526100764

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This new study raises fundamental questions about the nature of imaginative writing in the age of 'England's troubles'. Drawing energy from recent debates in Stuart history, this book looks past the traditional watersheds of Restoration and Revolution, plotting the responsiveness of seventeenth-century writers to the tremors of civil conflict and to the enduring crises and contradictions of Stuart governance. Augustine draws freely from the insights and strategies of contextual analysis, close reading, and critical theory in a bid to defamiliarise major texts of the period, from the poetry of young Milton to the brilliant works of adaptation, translation, and bricolage that characterised Dryden's last decade. Muting the antagonisms and conflicts that have dominated previous accounts, Aesthetics of contingency thus proposes to write the literary history of this period anew.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew C. Augustine is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526100762
• ISBN 13: 9781526100764
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne