Aesthetics of Contingency - Writing, Politics, and Culture in England, 1639-89Pevná vazba
Aesthetics of contingency provides an important reconsideration of seventeenth-century literature in light of new understandings of the English past. Emphasising the contingency of the political in…
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Aesthetics of contingency provides an important reconsideration of seventeenth-century literature in light of new understandings of the English past. Emphasising the contingency of the political in revolutionary England and its extended aftermath, Matthew Augustine challenges prevailing literary histories plotted according to structural conflicts and teleological narrative. In their place, he offers an innovative account of imaginative and polemical writing, in an effort to view later seventeenth-century literature on its own terms: without certainty about the future or, indeed, the recent past. One consequence of hewing to this premise is that the familiar outline of the period - with red lines drawn at 1642, 1660, or 1688 - becomes suggestively blurred. For all of Milton's prophetic gestures, for all of Dryden's presumption to speak for, to epitomise his Age, writing from
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