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1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1. Bulstrode Whitelocke's Embassy to Sweden; 2. London's Triumphs and Civic Culture; 3. The Oxford Muses in the Protectorate; 4. The First Protectorate Parliament, Waller's A Panegyrick to My Lord Protector, and Marvell's The First Anniversary; 5. The Western Design; 6. 'Soe Honny from the Lyon came': Wedding Entertainments for the Protector's Daughters; 7. Oliver Cromwell's Legacy: Elegies, Funerals, and the Succession; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The Cromwellian Protectorate was a period of innovation in poetry and drama, as well as constitutional debate. This new account of the period focuses on key cultural institutions - Parliament, an embassy to Sweden, Oxford University, Cromwell's state funeral - to examine this poetry's relationship with a culture in transformation and crisis. Edward Holberton shows that the Protectorate's instabilities helped to generate lively and innovative poetry. Protectorate verse explores the fault-lines of a culture which ceaselessly contested the authority of its own institutions, including the office o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
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| SUBJECT |
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 fast (OCoLC)fst00055660 |
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Social institutions in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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English poetry -- Early modern.
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Literature and society.
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Politics and literature.
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Social institutions in literature.
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Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056798
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Great Britain.
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191562594 |
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0191562599 |
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9780199544585 |
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0199544581 |
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9780191719981 |
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0191719986 |
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