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Author Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth

Title Enchanted Ground : Reimagining John Dryden
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages)
Series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: ENCHANTED GROUND -- 1 Dryden and the Consumption of History -- 2 Dryden, Marvell, and the Design of Political Poetry -- 3 Dryden and Dissent -- 4 The Politics of Pastoral Retreat: Dryden's Poem to His Cousin -- 5 Dryden's Emergence as a Political Satirist -- 6 The Political Economy of All for Love -- 7 Wit, Politics, and Religion: Dryden and Gibbon -- 8 How Many Religions Did John Dryden Have? -- PART II: THE GROUNDS OF ENCHANTMENT -- 9 Anxious Comparisons in John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida -- 10 Dryden and the Canon: Absorbing and Rejecting the Burden of the Past -- 11 'Betwixt two Ages cast': Theatrical Dryden -- 12 Dryden's Baroque Dramaturgy: The Case of Aureng-Zebe -- 13 'The Rationall Spirituall Part': Dryden and Purcell's Baroque King Arthur -- 14 Dryden's Songs -- 15 'Thy Lovers were all untrue': Sexual Overreaching in the Heroic Plays and Alexander's Feast -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary For Enchanted Ground, Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak have brought together many of the world's experts on Dryden, and their essays reflect a range of new, uniquely twenty-first-century views of him
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Subject Dryden, John, 1631-1700 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Dryden, John, 1631-1700 fast
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Jayne
Novak, Maximillian E
Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff
ISBN 9781442674400
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