LITERATURE AND POLITICS IN THE 1620S by Dr Paul Salzman ( 9781349454983 )

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Title:

LITERATURE AND POLITICS IN THE 1620S
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Volume:

2014

By:

Dr Paul Salzman

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1349454982

ISBN 13:

9781349454983

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

1 January, 2014

Edition:

2014 ed.

Pages:

232

Description:

"This exciting study of the literature of the 1620s argues that during the decade a huge range of writing and performance reflected the growing hunger of readers and audiences for political information and commentary mediated through literature. The comparatively neglected decade is reshaped by this book, which argues that literature was inextricably linked to politics, whether oppositional or authoritarian. A wide range of texts are analyzed, from Shakespeare's First Folio to Middleton's A Game At Chess, from romances and poetry to sermons, tracts and newsbooks. Salzman argues that the flow and counterflow of these texts was part of a cultivated practice of reading and writing, that politicized every moment as a contest of ideas. This is literary history at its most innovative and informative. Additional materials for Literature and Politics in the 1620s can be found here: http: //www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/specialisations/literary-studies "--

Synopsis:

Literature and Politics in the 1620s argues that literature during this decade was inextricably linked to politics, whether oppositional or authoritarian. A wide range of texts are analyzed, from Shakespeare's First Folio to Middleton's A Game At Chess, from romances and poetry to sermons, tracts and newsbooks.

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biography

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

Returns:

Returnable

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