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Lord Rochester in the Restoration World
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Lord Rochester in the Restoration World
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Matthew C. Augustine
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Edited by Steven N. Zwicker
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:303 | Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies - poetry and poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781107670570
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Classifications | Dewey:821.4 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
31 August 2017 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered an embodiment of the Restoration era. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars focuses new attention on, and brings fresh perspectives to, the writings of Lord Rochester. Particular consideration is given to the political force and social identity of Rochester's work, to the worlds - courtly and theatrical, urban and suburban - from which Rochester's poetry emerged and which it discloses, and not least to the unsettling aesthetic power of Rochester's writing. The singularity of Rochester's voice - his 'matchless wit' - has been widely recognised; this book encourages the continued appreciation of all the ways in which Rochester reveals the layered and promiscuous character of literary projects throughout the whole of a brilliant, abrasive, and miscellaneous age.
Author Biography
Matthew C. Augustine is Lecturer in Late Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of St Andrews. Steven N. Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Washington University, St Louis.
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