Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration : Literature, Drama, History

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Label

Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration : Literature, Drama, History

Title remainder

Literature, Drama, History

Statement of responsibility

Edited by Gerald MacLean

Contributor

• MacLean, Gerald M., 1952-
• MacLean, Gerald M., 1952-

Subject

• Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
• Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century
• Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

What specifically distinguishes Restoration culture and society from what went before and came after? And how did early modern British women and men accommodate themselves to the dramatic historical changes of the seventeenth century? This study, which brings together recent work by leading historians as well as literary and cultural critics of the period, shows how the Restoration produced the concept of a national literature crucial to a new nationalist cultural enterprise: questions of national identity and difference, of what it meant to be English or British or both, came to be framed in terms of international trade and imperial ambition; and religious and royal authority gave way before the advance of a secular literary culture geared to the demands of a developing commercial and imperial nation

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

942.06/6

Index

index present

LC call number

PR437

LC item number

.L55 1995eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries