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.
| ISBN: | 9781108419642 |
| Publication date: | 31st January 2019 |
| Author: | Stephen B Georgia State University Dobranski |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 380 pages |
| Series: | Early Modern Literature in Transition |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 |