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• catalog abstract "The years of the Civil War and Interregnum have usually been marginalised as a literary period. This wide-ranging and highly original study demonstrates that these central years of the seventeenth century were a turning point, not only in the political, social and religious history of the nation, but also in the use and meaning of language and literature. At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority. For English people, Smith argues, the upheaval in divine and secular authority provided both motive and opportunity for transformations in the nature and meaning of literary expression. The increase in pamphleteering and journalism brought a new awareness of print; with it existing ideas of authorship and authority collapsed. Through literature, people revised their understanding of themselves and attempted to transform their predicament. Smith examines literary output ranging from the obvious masterworks of the age - Milton's Paradise Lost, Hobbes's Leviathan, Marvell's poetry - to a host of less well-known writings. He examines the contents of manuscripts and newsbooks sold on the streets, published drama, epics and romances, love poetry, praise poetry, psalms and hymns, satire in prose and verse, fishing manuals, histories. He analyses the cant and babble of religious polemic and the language of political controversy, demonstrating how, as literary genres changed and disintegrated, they often acquired vital new life. Ranging further than any other work on this period, and with a narrative rich in allusion, the book explores the impact of politics on the practice of writing and the role of literature in the process of historical change.".
• catalog alternative "Literature & revolution in England, 1640-1660".
• catalog contributor b7355053.
• catalog coverage "England Church history 17th century.".
• catalog coverage "England Civilization 17th century.".
• catalog coverage "Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-402) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Dissent refracted: Text, genre and society 1640-60 -- Part I: Writing, publishing and reading in the war -- 1. Unstable parameters -- The conditions of writing -- Style wars: Forms confused -- 2. Public fora -- What is the news? -- Theatres transprosed: The career of drama in the English Revolution -- Part II: Rhetoric, politics and religion -- 3. The meaning of the centre -- Juggling models: Parliamentary and monarchical apology -- The Holy Commonwealth and the breaking of forms -- 4. Discourse from below: The Levellers, the city and the army -- Urban drama -- The uses of books -- Levellers republicanised -- 5. Political theory as aesthetics: Hobbes, Harrington, Winstanley -- Hobbe's body -- Harrington's commonwealth -- 'Action is the life of all' -- 6. The free state in letters: Republicanism comes out -- Approximate discourses -- The free state speaks -- The republican advance -- Part III: Mythologising calamity: Genres in revolution -- 7. Heroic work -- Epics divides: Heroic diatribes -- Mr. Hobbes in love: The quest for real romance -- 8. The instrumentality of lyrics -- The lyric in the republic -- Battle hymns of the republic -- Two war genres -- 9. Satire: Whose property? -- Marprelate revived -- Satire and 'popular culture' -- A great forgetting -- 10. Calamity as narrative -- On the land: Landscape, pastoral, piscatorial -- 'I was there': history as imagined present -- Conclusion.".
• catalog description "The years of the Civil War and Interregnum have usually been marginalised as a literary period. This wide-ranging and highly original study demonstrates that these central years of the seventeenth century were a turning point, not only in the political, social and religious history of the nation, but also in the use and meaning of language and literature. At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority. For English people, Smith argues, the upheaval in divine and secular authority provided both motive and opportunity for transformations in the nature and meaning of literary expression. The increase in pamphleteering and journalism brought a new awareness of print; with it existing ideas of authorship and authority collapsed. Through literature, people revised their understanding of themselves and attempted to transform their predicament. Smith examines literary output ranging from the obvious masterworks of the age - Milton's Paradise Lost, Hobbes's Leviathan, Marvell's poetry - to a host of less well-known writings. He examines the contents of manuscripts and newsbooks sold on the streets, published drama, epics and romances, love poetry, praise poetry, psalms and hymns, satire in prose and verse, fishing manuals, histories. He analyses the cant and babble of religious polemic and the language of political controversy, demonstrating how, as literary genres changed and disintegrated, they often acquired vital new life. Ranging further than any other work on this period, and with a narrative rich in allusion, the book explores the impact of politics on the practice of writing and the role of literature in the process of historical change.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 425 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0300059744".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
• catalog spatial "England Church history 17th century.".
• catalog spatial "England Civilization 17th century.".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "941.06/3 20".
• catalog subject "DA406 .S63 1994".
• catalog subject "English language Early modern, 1500-1700 Rhetoric.".
• catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Literary form History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Literary form.".
• catalog subject "Literature publishing England History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Religion and literature History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Rhetoric 1500-1800.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Dissent refracted: Text, genre and society 1640-60 -- Part I: Writing, publishing and reading in the war -- 1. Unstable parameters -- The conditions of writing -- Style wars: Forms confused -- 2. Public fora -- What is the news? -- Theatres transprosed: The career of drama in the English Revolution -- Part II: Rhetoric, politics and religion -- 3. The meaning of the centre -- Juggling models: Parliamentary and monarchical apology -- The Holy Commonwealth and the breaking of forms -- 4. Discourse from below: The Levellers, the city and the army -- Urban drama -- The uses of books -- Levellers republicanised -- 5. Political theory as aesthetics: Hobbes, Harrington, Winstanley -- Hobbe's body -- Harrington's commonwealth -- 'Action is the life of all' -- 6. The free state in letters: Republicanism comes out -- Approximate discourses -- The free state speaks -- The republican advance -- Part III: Mythologising calamity: Genres in revolution -- 7. Heroic work -- Epics divides: Heroic diatribes -- Mr. Hobbes in love: The quest for real romance -- 8. The instrumentality of lyrics -- The lyric in the republic -- Battle hymns of the republic -- Two war genres -- 9. Satire: Whose property? -- Marprelate revived -- Satire and 'popular culture' -- A great forgetting -- 10. Calamity as narrative -- On the land: Landscape, pastoral, piscatorial -- 'I was there': history as imagined present -- Conclusion.".
• catalog title "Literature & revolution in England, 1640-1660".
• catalog title "Literature and revolution in England, 1640-1660 / Nigel Smith.".
• catalog type "Church history. fast".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".