Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (Paperback)

Sharon Achinstein

ISBN 10: 0521050707 / ISBN 13: 9780521050708

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008

Paperback. The England of John Milton's great poems was the England of Dissenters, those who refused to join the state Church after the return of monarchy in 1660, seen as dangerous outcasts and rebels. Sharon Achinstein's book shows how a literary tradition of dissent was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England, bringing to view a range of writing that has been largely, and unjustly, neglected. Considering authors both inside and outside the dissenting tradition, including Milton, John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Mary Mollineux, John Dryden, Andrew Marvell, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and Isaac Watts, and other little-known dissenting writers, Achinstein shows how a distinctive Dissenting cultural legacy challenges our notions of literary history, aesthetic value and the relation between literature and politics. This important study will be of interest to Milton scholars and seventeenth-century literary and religious historians. Achinstein shows how a literary tradition of dissent was produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England, bringing to view a range of writing that has been largely neglected. This important study will be of interest to Milton scholars and seventeenth-century literary and religious historians. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780521050708

Synopsis :

Examines the literary tradition of dissent produced by those who suffered political defeat and religious exclusion in Restoration England.

À propos de l?auteur: Sharon Achinstein is Lecturer in English at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, and has previously taught at the University of Maryland and Northwestern University. She is the author of Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994), which won the Milton Society of America's Hanford Prize, and edited Literature, Gender and the English Revolution (1994).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (...
Éditeur : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date d'édition : 2008
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : new
Edition : Edition originale