Lines of Authority by Steven N Zwicker
Focusing on the turbulent years between the execution of Charles I and the triumph of William III, Steven N. Zwicker reads English literature as a series of brilliant and deeply engaged polemical contests. Zwicker juxtaposes overtly polemical writingspamphlets, broadsides, and balladswith canonical works, including epic, historical verse...Lines of Authority is an important contribution to the study of seventeenth-century English literature and politics and provides an extremely fruitful model for further studies of Restoration texts
-- Scott Campbell Lucas, Duke University * Renaissance Quarterly *Zwicker addresses... English literary culture from the [1640s to] 1688, and he includes in his regard works by Davenant, Hobbes, Cowley, Sprat, Milton, Marvell, Walton, and Locke.... The book makes its strongest claim by the subtlety and specificity of its particular readings, by its sometimes unexpected juxtapositions of texts and events, and by the exemplary appeal of its critical methodology.
* Journal of English and German Philology *[Lines of Authority] is... elegantly written,... and I imagine that part of the book's stylistic power derives precisely from the author's sensitivity to the nuances of a world that he does not assume to be our own.
* STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 *Steven N. Zwicker is Professor of English and Co-director of the Program in Literature and History at Washington University, St. Louis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801483363 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801483360 |
| Title | Lines of Authority |
| Author | Steven N Zwicker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 1996-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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