Product Description: While Ben Jonson's political visions have been well documented, this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. For Jonson, these genres were interactive and mutually affirming, necessary for negotiating the tempestuous politics of early modern society, and here some of the most renowned Jonson scholars provide a collection of essays that discuss his use of genre...read more

Product Description: The collection begins with a fresh analysis of the visionary mode of narrative in the early modern period as seen in both biblical and imaginative literature and sets the groundwork for an examination of Milton's poetry, prose, and biography...read more

Product Description: This book presents an exploration of the transatlantic character of early-American religious dissent. "Errands Into the Metropolis" offers a dramatic new interpretation of the texts and contexts of early New England literature. Jonathan Beecher Field inverts the familiar paradigm of colonization as an errand into the wilderness to demonstrate, instead, that New England was shaped and reshaped by a series of return trips to a metropolitan London convulsed with political turmoil...read more

Product Description: This text traces the Tudor-Stuart Roman play from medieval and classical sources and delineates its use of such powerful devices as nationality markers, circularity, historical irony and topical anachronism. It is organised thematically around cultural and personal traits held to be Roman...read more

Product Description: Perez Zagorin presents an account of Milton's philosophy set in relationship to his personal and intellectual history as a political man during the English revolution. He follows Milton's mind in its political manifestations from his earlier poetry before the outbreak of revolt against the Stuart monarchy, through his activity as a passionate partisan and revolutionary publicist in the decades 1640-1660, to his final work as an epic poet following the revolution's failure and the restoration of Charles II in 1660...read more

Product Description: Book by Quilligan, Maureen