Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623-1660: Volume 2

The early modern period in Britain was defined by tremendous upheaval - the upending of monarchy, the unsettling of church doctrine, and the pursuit of a new method of inquiry based on an inductive experimental model. Political Turmoil: Early Modern Literature in Transition, 1623-1660 offers an innovative and ambitious re-appraisal of seventeenth-century British literature and history. Each of the contributors attempts to address the 'how' and 'why' of aesthetic change by focusing on political and cultural transformations. Instead of forging a grand narrative of continuity, the contributors attempt to piece together the often complex web of factors and events that contributed to developments in literary form and matter - as well as the social and religious changes that literature sometimes helped to occasion. These twenty chapters, reading across traditional periodization, demonstrate that early modern literary works - when they were conceived, as they were created, and after they circulated - were, above all, involved in various types of transitions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110841964X
• ISBN13: 9781108419642
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 9.2"