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Plots and Counterplots
Richard Braverman
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Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730
出版Cambridge University Press, 1993-07-29
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)History / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / RenaissanceLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Politics
ISBN05213562029780521356206
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_bzsKC6dn-oC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Richard Braverman's study of literary and political plots looks at the ways in which the rhetoric of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dynastic politics finds its formal expression in narrative evocations of the family romance. Its point of departure is the political conflict that led to the rupture between crown and parliament in the earlier seventeenth century, and the ensuing quest for a discourse that might bridge the division. Beginning with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and ending with the rise of oligarchy in the 1720s, it traverses a wide literary territory, from royalist lyrics celebrating the Restoration, to Butler, Marvell, Etherege, Dryden, Congreve, Defoe and Thomson, amongst others. Covering an equally broad range of genres, including satire, tragedy, comedy, romance, georgic and the novel, Braverman's argument is focused by the notion of sexual politics, offering an idiom in which to address the larger framework of dynastic politics.