Ideas of the Restoration in English literature, 1660-71 / Nicholas Jose.
"This is a study of the relationship of literary imagination and sociopolitical reality during the turbulent decades of the English Revolution. A 'scholarly, sometimes difficult, sometimes argumentative, but always bright and feisty book."--Choice. Book jacket.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1984.
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Table of Contents:
- The state chaos
- New order
- Ideas of restoration I: the Panegyric task
- Ideas of restoration II: looking back and looking forward
- Ideal restoration and the case of Cowley
- The poetry of the second Dutch war
- Theatrical restoration
- Samson Agonistes: the play turned upside down
- Conclusion: artifice and scrutiny.