Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution by Niall Allsopp (English) Hard

Description: Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution by Niall Allsopp This book presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English Revolution by focusing on royalist poets who left the cause behind following the execution of the king. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly secular, artificial, and absolutist ways. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 royalists who had sided with the King were left with asignificant vacuum to fill. Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution charts the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, William Davenant, Abraham Cowley, and Margaret Cavendish amongstothers in this period. It examines the poets close acquaintance with Thomas Hobbes, offering new readings of the reception and adaptation of Hobbess ideas in contemporary poetry. A final chapter traces how the poets survived the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, showing how they continued to apply their ideas in the heroic drama of the 1660s. Poetry and Sovereigniy in the English Revolution builds on recent work in both literary criticism and the history of political thought tocontextualize royalist poets within a distinctive strain of absolutism inflected by reason of state, neostoicism, scepticism, and anticlericalism. It demonstrates a vivid poetic effort to imagine the expandedstate delivered by the English Revolution. Author Biography Niall Allsopp is a Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. He specializes in the literature of the seventeenth century, and particularly the English Revolution, with interests including how literature negotiates the ideas of sovereignity, political obligations, public rituals, and social cohesion in a period when such concepts were radically tested. His essay Threshold Rituals in Early Modern England: A Case Study in Robert Herrick won theReview of English Studies essay prize 2016. Table of Contents Introduction1: Davenant: Imagining Sovereignty in Gondibert2: Marvell: Action and Obedience3: Cavendish: Ceremony and Coercion4: Cowley: Oblivion and Obedience5: Davenant and the Protectorate: Sovereignty and Civility6: Restoration: Clemency and ContingencyConclusion Long Description Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly secular, artificial, and absolutist ways. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649 royalists who had sided with the King were left with a significant vacuum to fill. Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution charts the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, William Davenant, Abraham Cowley, and Margaret Cavendish amongst others in this period. It examines the poets close acquaintance with Thomas Hobbes, offering new readings of the reception and adaptation of Hobbess ideas in contemporary poetry. Afinal chapter traces how the poets survived the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, showing how they continued to apply their ideas in the heroic drama of the 1660s. Poetry and Sovereigniy in the English Revolution builds on recent work in both literary criticism and the history of political thought tocontextualize royalist poets within a distinctive strain of absolutism inflected by reason of state, neostoicism, scepticism, and anticlericalism. It demonstrates a vivid poetic effort to imagine the expanded state delivered by the English Revolution. Feature Sets out detailed new arguments for the meaning and significance of major but neglected poems of the revolutionary periodDraws on recent research in literary studies and the history of political thought to provide new readings of the reception of Thomas Hobbes by his poetic contemporariesOffers interdisciplinary perspectives in history, literary studies, and political throught, providing new insight on a topic that has received only partial scholarly attention Details ISBN0198861060 Author Niall Allsopp Publisher Oxford University Press Series Oxford English Monographs Year 2020 ISBN-10 0198861060 ISBN-13 9780198861065 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Affiliation Lecturer in English, University of Exeter Position Lecturer in English Pages 256 Language English Publication Date 2020-05-07 UK Release Date 2020-05-07 NZ Release Date 2020-05-07 DEWEY 821.409358 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-05-20 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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