| The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 Contributor(s): Zwicker, Steven N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521564883 ISBN-13: 9780521564885 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $36.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: Newly commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives in order to offer new insight into the literature of Restoration and early 18th-century England in all its variety, from vitriolic satire to heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, comprehending the period with a fresh perspective. 5 photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 97030165 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.06" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile moments, when literature was enmeshed with the extremes of social, political and sexual experience. Newly-commissioned essays make use of current critical perspectives in order to offer new insight into the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England in all its variety, from vitriolic satire to heroic verse. The volume's chronologies and select bibliographies will guide the reader through texts and events, while the fourteen essays commissioned for this Companion will allow us to read the period anew. |