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- catalog abstract ""The radical prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, living at the very margins of seventeenth-century English society. Combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style, these men and women brazenly challenged civil and religious authority and flouted social decorum, unnerving their contemporaries and fanning fears of social anarchy. Unfortunately, far too little is known about the fate of their ideas, their writings, and their successors between the restoration of Charles II and the rise of the poetry of sensibility in the mid-eighteenth century. Too often they are assumed merely to have disappeared soon after 1660, snuffed out by a restored monarchy and an Augustan culture antithetical to their aims, and lost to sight until they were rediscovered in the late 1720s by a new generation of poets intrigued by vatic inspiration." "The purpose of this study is to suggest a rather different legacy for the radical prophets of the mid-seventeenth century. It contends, first of all, that prophecy was a significant genre for the writers of the Restoration and early eighteenth century - far more prevalent, more pervasive, and more influential in the decades following 1660 than has traditionally been acknowledged. From Butler's Hudibras, to Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, to the portrayal of Settle in Pope's first version of The Dunciad, prophets rant, rage, and wreak havoc through even the most canonical of Augustan texts, revealing the period's obsession with the figure of the radical prophet."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12309994.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""The purpose of this study is to suggest a rather different legacy for the radical prophets of the mid-seventeenth century. It contends, first of all, that prophecy was a significant genre for the writers of the Restoration and early eighteenth century - far more prevalent, more pervasive, and more influential in the decades following 1660 than has traditionally been acknowledged. From Butler's Hudibras, to Dryden's Mac Flecknoe, to the portrayal of Settle in Pope's first version of The Dunciad, prophets rant, rage, and wreak havoc through even the most canonical of Augustan texts, revealing the period's obsession with the figure of the radical prophet."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The radical prophets of the English civil wars were fascinating figures, living at the very margins of seventeenth-century English society. Combining a devout belief in the power of divine inspiration with a passionate desire for social change and a distinctly eccentric rhetorical style, these men and women brazenly challenged civil and religious authority and flouted social decorum, unnerving their contemporaries and fanning fears of social anarchy. Unfortunately, far too little is known about the fate of their ideas, their writings, and their successors between the restoration of Charles II and the rise of the poetry of sensibility in the mid-eighteenth century.".
- catalog description "1. Polemic, Culture, and Conflict -- 2. Joining with Self-Interests: Royalist Reconstruction and the Popular Press -- 3. Interpreting Providence: The Politics of Prophecy in Restoration Polemic -- 4. "High on a Throne of his own Labours rear'd": Mac Flecknoe, Prophecy, and Cultural Myth -- 5. Providence, Party, and Hegemony in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees -- 6. A Taste for Spectacle: The Ambivalence of Satiric Judgment in Pope's Dunciad -- Tail-Piece: The Fate of Prophetic Hegemony.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.".
- catalog description "Too often they are assumed merely to have disappeared soon after 1660, snuffed out by a restored monarchy and an Augustan culture antithetical to their aims, and lost to sight until they were rediscovered in the late 1720s by a new generation of poets intrigued by vatic inspiration."".
- catalog extent "223 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0874137497 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "821/.409358 21".
- catalog subject "English poetry 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR545.H5 K56 2001".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Prophecies in literature.".
- catalog subject "Prophecy in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Polemic, Culture, and Conflict -- 2. Joining with Self-Interests: Royalist Reconstruction and the Popular Press -- 3. Interpreting Providence: The Politics of Prophecy in Restoration Polemic -- 4. "High on a Throne of his own Labours rear'd": Mac Flecknoe, Prophecy, and Cultural Myth -- 5. Providence, Party, and Hegemony in Mandeville's Fable of the Bees -- 6. A Taste for Spectacle: The Ambivalence of Satiric Judgment in Pope's Dunciad -- Tail-Piece: The Fate of Prophetic Hegemony.".
- catalog title "Transforming the word : prophecy, poetry, and politics in England, 1650-1742 / Margery A. Kingsley.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".