Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521475662)

Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration 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.

Author: Gerald MacLean
ISBN-10: 052147566X
ISBN-13: 9780521475662
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/26/1995
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.65d