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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810545603321

Titolo

The English civil wars in the literary imagination [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8262-6169-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

ix, 279 p

Altri autori (Persone)

SummersClaude J

PebworthTed-Larry

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cavalier -- A Sad Intestine Warr -- Herrick's Masque of Death -- From Witty History to Typology -- Small Types of Great Ones -- Resistance, Collaboration, and Silence -- Is There No Temperate Region...? -- The Garrisoned Muse -- Two Letters to Lord Fairfax -- A Most Humane Foe -- Paradox in Poetry and Politics -- We Saw a New Created Day -- Ostentation Vain of Fleshly Arm -- Dismembering and Remembering -- The Phoenix and the Crocodile -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index of Works Cited.