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OverviewThe Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew C. Augustine (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews) , Steven N. Zwicker (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780192866035ISBN 10: 0192866036 Pages: 800 Publication Date: 26 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Names and Dates Abbreviations and Conventions Contributors PART I INTRODUCTION 1: Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker: Writing the Stuart Restoration: Political Time, Cultural Time, and Literary Periodicity PART II FASHIONING THE RESTORATION 2: David F. Taylor: The Theatre of Politics and the Politics of Theatre 3: David Alff: Restoration Panegyric 4: Edward Holberton: Acts of Indemnity and Oblivion: 'This Excellent Art of Forgetfulness' 5: Phil Connell: Remembering the Civil Wars 6: Kate Bennett: Restoration Life Writing and the Arts of Assembly 7: Michael Mascuch: C. 22-23 April 1661, &c: or, The Diary Method of Restoration Sovereignty PART III THE INSTITUTIONS OF LITERARY CULTURE 8: Robert D. Hume: Plays and Players, Playhouses and Playgoers 9: Julia Fawcett: Celebrity and the Restoration Actress 10: Richard McCabe: Patronage 11: John Barnard: Censorship and the Regulation of the Press: 1660-1695 12: Margaret J. M. Ezell: Authorship and the Book Trade 13: Martin Dzelzainis: Scribal Culture and Literary Sociability: Marvell and Etherege in Manuscript 14: Michael Gavin: Literary Criticism of the Restoration PART IV WRITERS AT THE CENTRE 15: Gillian Wright: 'For the Bays Designed': Waller, Cowley, Philips 16: Tom Lockwood: Dryden and Congreve (and Milton and Jonson) 17: James Loxley: Cleveland's Ghosts: Butler, Marvell, and Restoration Satire 18: Erin Murphy: Imagining It Was Otherwise: Cavendish and Milton 19: Katherine Mannheimer: 'Voice Made up of Harmony': Rochester and Behn 20: David Roberts: True Comedy? Etherege, Wycherley, Shadwell 21: David Parry: Grace Abounding: Baxter and Bunyan 22: Blair Hoxby: The Experimental Theatre of Lee and Otway 23: Nigel Smith: The Power of Letters: John Locke and Lady Damaris Masham PART V BODIES POLITIC 24: Niall Allsopp: The Body Politic in the Literary Imagination 25: Thomas A. King: From the Body Politic to Biopolitics 26: Laura J. Rosenthal: Scandalous Bodies in the Restoration PART VI RESTORATION SPIRITUALITIES 27: Elizabeth Sauer: Negotiating Nonconformity: Arts and Animadversions 28: Tessie Prakas: Women, Prayer, and Prophecy 29: Alison Shell: Catholic Writing in the Restoration: Mission, Tradition, Opposition PART VII PHILOSOPHY AND NATURAL SCIENCE 30: Mordechai Feingold: The Royal Society and Literate Culture 31: Helen Thompson: Restoration Science and Literary Representation in a Global Context 32: Claire Preston: 'Affections of Matter': Empirical Description in Early Modern Natural Philosophy PART VIII BORDER-CROSSINGS 33: Henry Power: Traffic with the Ancients 34: Robert Phiddian: Restoration Parody and Plagiarism 35: Lines Cottegnies: Imitation and Admiration, Fear and Loathing: France in the English Imagination 36: Rajani Sudan: Stuart Britannia and the Worlding of Empire PART IX ''TIS WELL AN OLD AGE IS OUT': RESTORATION ENDINGS 37: Christopher D'Addario: Affect and Uncertainty: Writing the Glorious Revolution 38: Paul K. Monod: Jacobite Literatures 39: Paul Davis: When Did the Restoration End?ReviewsAuthor InformationAs an undergraduate, Matthew C Augustine studied English, Rhetoric, and French at the University of Illinois and then went on to graduate study at Washington University in St Louis, where he became interested in the literary and political cultures of seventeenth-century England. Much of his work has been devoted to deforming the distinctions, boundaries, and oppositions that have traditionally governed our understanding of this period and of its cultural regimes. The poet and politician Andrew Marvell has for several years been a central focus, but he has also written and collaborated widely in studying seventeenth-century literature and literary culture. Steven N. Zwicker was born in San Diego, California, and grew up in Los Angeles. Since his undergraduate days at UCLA, he has been interested in early modern literature, especially the literature of the civil war years and Restoration. Hisgraduate work was directed by Barbara Lewalski at Brown University and when he began teaching at Washington University in St Louis the late historian John Pocock taught the history of political thought at the university. Pocock's work and teaching opened for Zwicker a new way to understand relations between politics and literary culture, and he has worked along that axis for a number of years, writing and teaching about Marvell, Milton, Rochester, and Dryden, and, more broadly, Restoration culture and politics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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