Literature and the English Civil War by Healy, Thomas and Johathan Sawday (eds.) - 1990

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large 8vo. viii, 268 pp, notes on the contributors, Introduction: 'Warre is all the World About' by Thomas Healy and Jonathan Sawday; Part I. Definitions and Premonitions: 1. The Very Name of the Game: Theories of Order and Disorder by Annabel Patterson; 2. A Troubled arcadia by Graham Parry. Part II. Engagement or Retreat?: 3. Politics and the Masque: Samacida Spolia by Martin Butler; 4. Exploring the Language of Devotion in the English Revolution by Helen Wilcox. Part III. Truth and the Self: 5. In the Wars of Truth: Violence, True Knowledge and Power in Milton and Hobbes by Francis Barker; 6. 'Some Rousing Motions': The Plurality of Miltonic Ideology by Thomas N. Corns; 7. 'Mysteriously Divided': Civil War, Madness and the Divided Self by Jonathan Sawday. Part IV. Interpreting the Present: 8. Marvell's 'Horation Ode' and the Politics of genre by David Norbrook; 9. 'Dark All without it Knits': Vision and Authority in Marvell's Upon Appleton House by Thomas Healy; 10. History Digested: Opera and Colonialism in the 1650s by Susan J. Wiseman; 11. 'Cheap and Common Animals': The Englsh Anatomy of Ireland in the 17th Century by Patricia Coughlan. Part V. Aftermaths: 12. 'the Colonel's Shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, Women's Writing and the Civil War by N. H. Keeble; 13. Exporting Enghusiasm: John Perrot and the Quaker Epic by Nigel Smith; index. First Edition, 1990. "Literature and the English Civil War charts the relationship between literary texts and their historical context during this era of profound change and upheaval for British society and culture. The volume demonstrates that literary texts are not merely passive reflections of the historical events that help to form them. On the contrary, 'history' is fashioned by the way events are named and the language used to describe them. Essays in the volume focus on issues of ideology and genre, often with reference to topical debates about how the events of 1640-1660 can best be characterised." Not Price Clipped, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine..