Title Literature and the politics of the family in seventeenth-century England / Su Fang Ng

Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: strange bedfellows -- patriarchalism and revolutionary thought; PART I Revolutionary debates; CHAPTER 1 Father-kings and Amazon queens; CHAPTER 2 Milton's band of brothers; CHAPTER 3 Hobbes and the absent family; CHAPTER 4 Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents; PART II Restoration imaginings; Interchapter: revolutionary legacies; CHAPTER 5 Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost; CHAPTER 6 Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of queenly rule Summary An insightful study of how metaphors of the family were used in seventeenth-century literary and political rhetoric Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Families in literature. Politics in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Early modern. Families in literature. Politics in literature. Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1500-1700. Litteratur och politik -- Storbritannien -- 1600-talet. Familjer i litteraturen. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511269838 051126853X 9780511268533 051126920X 9780511269202 9780511269837 9780511270390 0511270399 9780511483837 051148383X 1280750723 9781280750724 0521123720 9780521123723 9780511320668 0511320663 1107171628 9781107171626

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