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The Later Seventeenth Century : Vol - 5 (1645-1714) / Margaret J. M. Ezell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The Oxford English Literary History | Oxford English literary history ; volume 5, 1645-1714Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: xxv, 572 p. : hb. ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780198183112
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 820.9004  EZE
Contents:
1: 1645: The War and the Commonwealth I: Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1645-1658 II: Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image and Word III: Hearing, Speaking, Writing: Religious Discourse from the Pulpit, among the Congregations, and the Prophets IV: Sociable Texts: Manuscript Circulation, Writers, and Readers in Britain and Abroad V: Fiction and Adventure Narratives: Romantic Foreigners and Native Romances
2: 1659-1660: The Return of the King I:Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1660-1673 II:Renovating the Stage: Companies, Actresses, Repertoire, Theatre Innovations, and the Touring Companies III:Enacting Libertinism: Court Performance and Literary Culture IV:Creating Science: The Royal Society and the New Literatures of Science V:'Adventurous Song': Samuel Butler, Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, John Milton, and 1660s Verse
3: 1674-1675: For Profit and Delight I:Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance II:Poets and the Politics of Patronage and Literary Criticism III:Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Travelling Companies, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances IV:Fictions: The Pilgrim's Progress, the New 'Novels', and Love and Erotica V:Foreign Parts: English Readers and Foreign Lands and Cultures
4: 1685-1686 Transitions I:Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance II:Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads III:Seen on Stage: English Operas, the Female Wits, and the 'Reformed' Stage IV:Debates between the Sexes: Satires, Advice, and Polemics
5: 1700: Forming the New Britain I:Laws Regulating Publication, Preaching, and Performance II:Kit-Cats and Scriblerians: Clubs, Wits, The Tatler, The Spectator, and The Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus III:Booksellers and the Book Trade: John Dunton, Edmund Curll, Grub Street, and the Rise of Bernard Lintot IV:'The Great Business of Poetry': Poets, Pastoral, and Politics
Summary: The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites readers to explore the continuities and the literary innovations occurring during six turbulent decades, as English readers and writers lived through unprecedented events including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity 'Great Britain', and an expanding English awareness of the New World as well as encounters with the cultures of Asia and the subcontinent. The period saw the establishment of new concepts of authorship and it saw a dramatic increase of women working as professional, commercial writers. London theatres closed by law in 1642 reopened with new forms of entertainments from musical theatrical spectaculars to contemporary comedies of manners with celebrity actors and actresses. Emerging literary forms such as epistolary fictions and topical essays were circulated and promoted by new media including newspapers, periodical publications, and advertising and laws were changing governing censorship and taking the initial steps in the development of copyright. It was a period which produced some of the most profound and influential literary expressions of religious faith from John Milton's Paradise Lost and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, while simultaneously giving rise to a culture of libertinism and savage polemical satire, as well as fostering the new dispassionate discourses of experimental sciences and the conventions of popular romance.
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1: 1645: The War and the Commonwealth I: Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1645-1658
II: Humphrey Moseley and London Literary Publishing: Making the Book, Image and Word
III: Hearing, Speaking, Writing: Religious Discourse from the Pulpit, among the Congregations, and the Prophets
IV: Sociable Texts: Manuscript Circulation, Writers, and Readers in Britain and Abroad
V: Fiction and Adventure Narratives: Romantic Foreigners and Native Romances

2: 1659-1660: The Return of the King
I:Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance, 1660-1673
II:Renovating the Stage: Companies, Actresses, Repertoire, Theatre Innovations, and the Touring Companies
III:Enacting Libertinism: Court Performance and Literary Culture
IV:Creating Science: The Royal Society and the New Literatures of Science
V:'Adventurous Song': Samuel Butler, Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, John Milton, and 1660s Verse

3: 1674-1675: For Profit and Delight
I:Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance
II:Poets and the Politics of Patronage and Literary Criticism
III:Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses: Smock Alley, Travelling Companies, Strollers, School Plays, and Private Performances
IV:Fictions: The Pilgrim's Progress, the New 'Novels', and Love and Erotica
V:Foreign Parts: English Readers and Foreign Lands and Cultures

4: 1685-1686 Transitions
I:Laws Regulating Publication, Speech, and Performance
II:Heard in the Street: Broadside Ballads
III:Seen on Stage: English Operas, the Female Wits, and the 'Reformed' Stage
IV:Debates between the Sexes: Satires, Advice, and Polemics

5: 1700: Forming the New Britain
I:Laws Regulating Publication, Preaching, and Performance
II:Kit-Cats and Scriblerians: Clubs, Wits, The Tatler, The Spectator, and The Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus
III:Booksellers and the Book Trade: John Dunton, Edmund Curll, Grub Street, and the Rise of Bernard Lintot
IV:'The Great Business of Poetry': Poets, Pastoral, and Politics

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.

Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers.

This volume covers the period 1645-1714, and removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England. It invites readers to explore the continuities and the literary innovations occurring during six turbulent decades, as English readers and writers lived through unprecedented events including a King tried and executed by Parliament and another exiled, the creation of the national entity 'Great Britain', and an expanding English awareness of the New World as well as encounters with the cultures of Asia and the subcontinent. The period saw the establishment of new concepts of authorship and it saw a dramatic increase of women working as professional, commercial writers. London theatres closed by law in 1642 reopened with new forms of entertainments from musical theatrical spectaculars to contemporary comedies of manners with celebrity actors and actresses. Emerging literary forms such as epistolary fictions and topical essays were circulated and promoted by new media including newspapers, periodical publications, and advertising and laws were changing governing censorship and taking the initial steps in the development of copyright. It was a period which produced some of the most profound and influential literary expressions of religious faith from John Milton's Paradise Lost and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, while simultaneously giving rise to a culture of libertinism and savage polemical satire, as well as fostering the new dispassionate discourses of experimental sciences and the conventions of popular romance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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