{"product_id":"poetry-and-sovereignty-in-the-niall-allsopp-9780198861065","title":"Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution","description":"\u003cem\u003ePoetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly secular, artificial, and absolutist ways. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the execution of Charles I in 1649 royalists who had sided with the King were left with a significant vacuum to fill. \u003cem\u003ePoetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e charts the poetry of Andrew Marvell, Edmund Waller, John Dryden, William Davenant, Abraham Cowley, and Margaret Cavendish amongst others in this period. It examines the poets' close acquaintance with Thomas Hobbes, offering new readings of the reception and adaptation of Hobbes's ideas in contemporary poetry. A final chapter traces how the poets survived the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, showing how they continued to apply their ideas in the heroic drama of the 1660s. \u003cem\u003ePoetry and Sovereigniy in the English Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e builds on recent work in both literary criticism and the history of political thought to contextualize royalist poets within a distinctive strain of absolutism inflected by reason of state, neostoicism, scepticism, and anticlericalism. It demonstrates a vivid poetic effort to imagine the expanded state delivered by the English Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Niall Allsopp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198861060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198861065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Niall Allsopp","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838352150783,"sku":"9780198861065","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b476fee-460b-4865-b78b-cd375d38bc6f.jpg?v=1746589560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetry-and-sovereignty-in-the-niall-allsopp-9780198861065","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}