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Author:

Jenkins, Hugh, 1958-

Title:

Feigned commonwealths : the country-house poem and the fashioning of the ideal community / Hugh Jenkins.

Publisher:

Duquesne University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Country homes in literature.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History.
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
Community life in literature.
Social values in literature.
State, The, in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index.

Contents:

Acknowledgments -- "That he which can faine a common-wealth": fashioning the ideal community -- From common wealth to commonwealth: the alchemy of "to Penshurst" -- The cavalier country house -- Puritan revisions: Milton's Comus and Marvell's "Upon Appleton house" -- Petitions for absolute retreat: genre and gender in the country-house poems of Aemilia Lanyer and Ann Finch -- Building the colonial country house: Robinson Crusoe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Series:

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

ISBN:

9780820702926 (acid-free paper)
0820702927 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39195440

LCCN:

98025311

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 821/.409358

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)