Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars by Zhang, Rachel

Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399524766)

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Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars by Zhang, Rachel

Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars

$120.00
Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars by Zhang, Rachel

Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Reimagining Constancy in the English Civil Wars exposes writers' reliance on conservative language during one of the most radical periods of English history. In case studies of both familiar genres (country house poem, love lyric, epic) and understudied ones (emblem book, prose romance), it shows how the conservative language of "constancy" was used to justify opposing positions in the period's most pressing controversies, including monarchical rule, ecclesiastical order, Catholicism, and England's relationship to the wider world. At the same time, writers like John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Hester Pulter, Percy Herbert, and others establish the virtue's importance to literary tradition, as they use "constancy" to retain, yet reimagine inherited formal structures and strategies. This book thus uses women's writing and non-canonical texts to highlight cross-factional conservatism and international investment in what scholars often describe as the "English Revolution".

Author: Rachel Zhang
ISBN-10: 1399524763
ISBN-13: 9781399524766
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2024
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
By Rachel Zhang
By Rachel Zhang
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Rachel Dunn Zhang is scholar of early modern literature residing in the New York City area who has taught at Columbia University, Rutgers University, City College of New York and Touro College's Lander College for Women. An authority on Hester Pulter, Zhang has published extensively on Pulter's poetry and prose and is a contributing editor and reviewer for The Pulter Project, a peer-reviewed online edition of Pulter's manuscript which has won awards from the MLA and Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. Zhang's scholarship has also been published in Milton Studies, Notes and Queries, Studies in Philology, Early Modern Women and The Seventeenth Century.

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