The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

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As an undergraduate, Matthew C Augustine studied English, Rhetoric, and French at the University of Illinois and then went on to graduate study at Washington University in St Louis, where he became interested in the literary and political cultures of seventeenth-century England. Much of his work has been devoted to deforming the distinctions, boundaries, and oppositions that have traditionally governed our understanding of this period and of its cultural regimes. The poet and politician Andrew Marvell has for several years been a central focus, but he has also written and collaborated widely in studying seventeenth-century literature and literary culture. Steven N. Zwicker was born in San Diego, California, and grew up in Los Angeles. Since his undergraduate days at UCLA, he has been interested in early modern literature, especially the literature of the civil war years and Restoration. Hisgraduate work was directed by Barbara Lewalski at Brown University and when he began teaching at Washington University in St Louis the late historian John Pocock taught the history of political thought at the university. Pocock's work and teaching opened for Zwicker a new way to understand relations between politics and literary culture, and he has worked along that axis for a number of years, writing and teaching about Marvell, Milton, Rochester, and Dryden, and, more broadly, Restoration culture and politics.

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This books brings new critical perspectives to bear on classic texts, asks challenging new questions about the relations among science, politics, and literary writing, probes emerging genres like the diary and the comedy of manners, and re-reads the great literature of the age.

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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.

Contenu

• Acknowledgements

• List of Figures

• Names and Dates

• Abbreviations and Conventions

• Contributors

• PART I INTRODUCTION

• 1: Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker: Writing the Stuart Restoration: Political Time, Cultural Time, and Literary Periodicity

• PART II FASHIONING THE RESTORATION

• 2: David F. Taylor: The Theatre of Politics and the Politics of Theatre

• 3: David Alff: Restoration Panegyric

• 4: Edward Holberton: Acts of Indemnity and Oblivion: 'This Excellent Art of Forgetfulness'

• 5: Phil Connell: Remembering the Civil Wars

• 6: Kate Bennett: Restoration Life Writing and the Arts of Assembly

• 7: Michael Mascuch: C. 22-23 April 1661, andc: or, The Diary Method of Restoration Sovereignty

• PART III THE INSTITUTIONS OF LITERARY CULTURE

• 8: Robert D. Hume: Plays and Players, Playhouses and Playgoers

• 9: Julia Fawcett: Celebrity and the Restoration Actress

• 10: Richard McCabe: Patronage

• 11: John Barnard: Censorship and the Regulation of the Press: 1660-1695

• 12: Margaret J. M. Ezell: Authorship and the Book Trade

• 13: Martin Dzelzainis: Scribal Culture and Literary Sociability: Marvell and Etherege in Manuscript

• 14: Michael Gavin: Literary Criticism of the Restoration

• PART IV WRITERS AT THE CENTRE

• 15: Gillian Wright: 'For the Bays Designed': Waller, Cowley, Philips

• 16: Tom Lockwood: Dryden and Congreve (and Milton and Jonson)

• 17: James Loxley: Cleveland's Ghosts: Butler, Marvell, and Restoration Satire

• 18: Erin Murphy: Imagining It Was Otherwise: Cavendish and Milton

• 19: Katherine Mannheimer: 'Voice Made up of Harmony': Rochester and Behn

• 20: David Roberts: True Comedy? Etherege, Wycherley, Shadwell

• 21: David Parry: Grace Abounding: Baxter and Bunyan

• 22: Blair Hoxby: The Experimental Theatre of Lee and Otway

• 23: Nigel Smith: The Power of Letters: John Locke and Lady Damaris Masham

• PART V BODIES POLITIC

• 24: Niall Allsopp: The Body Politic in the Literary Imagination

• 25: Thomas A. King: From the Body Politic to Biopolitics

• 26: Laura J. Rosenthal: Scandalous Bodies in the Restoration

• PART VI RESTORATION SPIRITUALITIES

• 27: Elizabeth Sauer: Negotiating Nonconformity: Arts and Animadversions

• 28: Tessie Prakas: Women, Prayer, and Prophecy

• 29: Alison Shell: Catholic Writing in the Restoration: Mission, Tradition, Opposition

• PART VII PHILOSOPHY AND NATURAL SCIENCE

• 30: Mordechai Feingold: The Royal Society and Literate Culture

• 31: Helen Thompson: Restoration Science and Literary Representation in a Global Context

• 32: Claire Preston: 'Affections of Matter': Empirical Description in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

• PART VIII BORDER-CROSSINGS

• 33: Henry Power: Traffic with the Ancients

• 34: Robert Phiddian: Restoration Parody and Plagiarism

• 35: Lines Cottegnies: Imitation and Admiration, Fear and Loathing: France in the English Imagination

• 36: Rajani Sudan: Stuart Britannia and the Worlding of Empire

• PART IX ''TIS WELL AN OLD AGE IS OUT': RESTORATION ENDINGS

• 37: Christopher D'Addario: Affect and Uncertainty: Writing the Glorious Revolution

• 38: Paul K. Monod: Jacobite Literatures

• 39: Paul Davis: When Did the Restoration End?