Pedantry and party politics: essays in the public sphere / Denise Gigante -- "Familiar things ...made new": epic and mock-epic verse, 1660-1714 / Mark Blackwell -- The satiric contract / David Rosen and Aaron Santesso -- Tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and the incubation of new genres, 1660-1714 / Marcie Frank -- Travel literature and the emergent nation / Clement Hawes -- Literature, religion, and party politics, 1660-1714 / Melinda S. Zook -- The dissidence of dissent in late seventeenth-century English literature / Elizabeth Sauer -- Profit and power: literature and the English commercial empire, 1651-1714 / Ramesh Mallipeddi -- "Heaven's center, Nature's lap": literary models of nation and empire, 1660-1714 / Suvir Kaul -- Brave new world: a Restoration debate / Margaret Kean -- Female wits and the late Stuart stage / Bridget Orr -- Deregulating the libertine mind: wine, wit, and wanton fancy / James A. Steintrager -- After libertinism: the passions of the polite Christian hero / Christopher Tilmouth -- Chymistry, primary qualities, and empirical knowledge / Helen Thompson -- Information and irony / Sean Silver -- Nation and environment in Britain, 1660-1705 / Robert Markley -- Creating the territories of recreation: parks, squares, and the exotic in London's little wilderness / Kevin L. Cope -- Early English sinology, 1577-1688 / William Poole -- John Dryden and Anne Killigrew: postmortems on the restoration / Jennifer Brady -- In defense of the short eighteenth century: `1714 as year zero / Pat Rogers. Part I. Generic transitions -- Part II. Ideological transitions -- Part III. Cultural transitions -- Part IV. Local transitions.
Summary:
"The years 1660 to 1714 represent a fraught transitional period, one caught between two now dominant periodization rubrics: early modern and the long eighteenth century. Containing narratives of disruption, restoration, and reconfiguration, Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1660-1714 explores the conjunctions and disjunctions between historical and literary developments in this period, when the sociable, rivalrous textual world of letters registered and accelerated changes. Each of the volume's four parts highlights the relationship of various literary forms to a different kind of transformation -- generic, ideological, cultural, or local. The five chapters in each section rigorously probe the conditions that affected the period's literary transformations, and interrogate the traditions that canonical and less established writers inherited, adapted, and often challenged. In making a case for an early mimetically produced English nation, this book, through its concentration on literary evidence and transitions, also makes innovative contributions to an understanding of nationalism in the period"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Early modern British literature in transition, 1557-1714 ; volume 3
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