Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730

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Cambridge University Press, 1993. júl. 29. - 333 oldal
Richard Braverman's study of literary and political plots looks at the ways in which the rhetoric of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dynastic politics finds its formal expression in narrative evocations of the family romance. Its point of departure is the political conflict that led to the rupture between crown and parliament in the earlier seventeenth century, and the ensuing quest for a discourse that might bridge the division. Beginning with the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and ending with the rise of oligarchy in the 1720s, it traverses a wide literary territory, from royalist lyrics celebrating the Restoration, to Butler, Marvell, Etherege, Dryden, Congreve, Defoe and Thomson, amongst others. Covering an equally broad range of genres, including satire, tragedy, comedy, romance, georgic and the novel, Braverman's argument is focused by the notion of sexual politics, offering an idiom in which to address the larger framework of dynastic politics.

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Family and polity
11
Double majesty
18
Politics and the family romance
32
widows and other fatal
48
dogma and its discontents through
114
Lucrece
152
from Whig myth to revisionary
177
Bancrofts Edward the Third
186
Way of the World
211
politics and cultivation
238
cultural politics from the South Sea Bubble
305
Select bibliography
317
Index
326
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