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Aesthetics of contingency
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- Book Synopsis
- This new study raises fundamental questions about the nature of imaginative writing in the age of 'England's troubles'. Drawing energy from recent debates in Stuart history, this book looks past the traditional watersheds of Restoration and Revolution, plotting the responsiveness of seventeenth-century writers to the tremors of civil conflict and to the enduring crises and contradictions of Stuart governance. Augustine draws freely from the insights and strategies of contextual analysis, close reading, and critical theory in a bid to defamiliarise major texts of the period, from the poetry of young Milton to the brilliant works of adaptation, translation, and bricolage that characterised Dryden's last decade. Muting the antagonisms and conflicts that have dominated previous accounts, Aesthetics of contingency thus proposes to write the literary history of this period anew.
- About The Author
- Matthew C. Augustine is a Lecturer in the School of English at the University of St Andrews
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781526100764
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press, (31 May 2018)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 481 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 138 x 17.46 mm
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