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Dryden and enthusiasm : literature, religion, and politics in Restoration England
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West, John (2018) Dryden and enthusiasm : literature, religion, and politics in Restoration England. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198816409
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Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, United Kingdom | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780198816409 | ||||||
Official Date: | 15 February 2018 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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