The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this intellectual adjustment from five related perspectives.
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this intellectual adjustment from five related perspectives: from the traditions of social thought, philosophical thought, Anglicanism and royalism, latitudinarianism and the whig tradition, and the dissenting/radical/quietist milieu. The texts highlight not only the views that prevailed (Halifax and Locke), but those that failed (Dryden and Temple) and those that were reduced to marginality (Baxter). The substantial introduction by the editor brings out key themes such as the shifting notion of property and the related themes of inheritance, education and marriage, as well as the uneasy intellectual alliances of the period.
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Original Review of Dryden:
fills a real need for studentsthis volume is much more than the elementary introduction it pretends to be. Robert D. Hume, The Review of English Studies, Vol 25, No. 99 (1974).
Introduction.
1. The Restoration: Poems 16591667
2. Admiration and
Truth: Drama and Criticism 16601679
3. Fancy and Delight: Comedy and
Criticism 16631672
4. Judgement and Instruction: Poems, Comedy and Satire
16731679
5. The Exclusion Crisis: Poems, Plays and Satires 16791681
6. The
Tory Triumph: Poems 16821686
7. A Catholic Reign: Poems 16851688
8. A
Protestant Revolution: Poems and Plays After 1688
9. Reactions to History:
Translations and Criticism 16811698
10. Nature, Love and War: The Fables and
The Secular Mask
William Myers retired as Professor of English Literature in 2004, having taught for most of his life in the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester, as well as lecturing in half a dozen universities in the United States, His interests and published works extend from Milton to Waugh and reflect his interest in theology, philosophy and science as well as in literature. He was involved in Adult Education throughout his career, and deplores its current decline in the UK. After his retirement he was ordained as a Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Diocese of Nottingham, but is no longer in active ministry.
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