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01966aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 758A80D0840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170628s2018 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2017952598 020 $a 0198816405 020 $a 9780198816409 035 $a (OCoLC)991676179 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d STF $d OCLCO $d GSU $d SILO 050 4 $a PR3427.E58 $b W47 2018 082 04 $a 810/820 100 1 $a West, John, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Dryden and enthusiasm : $b literature, religion, and politics in Restoration England / $c John West. 246 18 $a Dryden & enthusiasm 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a 200 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index. 520 $a This book explores the paradoxical place of enthusiasm in Dryden's writing and the role he conceived for it in art and society after the violent upheavals of the mid seventeenth century. Works from across his oeuvre are explored, from his early essays and heroic plays to his translations, via new readings of his famous political and religious poems. These are read alongside other major writers of the period, like Milton, and less well-known authors, such as John Dennis. The book suggests new ways of conceptualising the relationship between literary practice and ideological allegiance in Restoration England. It reveals Dryden to be a writer who was consistently interested in the limits of what literature could express, what feelings it could provoke, and what it could make people believe at a time when such questions were of uncertain political importance. 600 10 $a Dryden, John, $d 1631-1700 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Enthusiasm in literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212015143.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=758A80D0840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search