The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

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Steven N. Zwicker
Cambridge University Press, 20.05.2004 - 300 Seiten
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.
 

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Composing a literary life Introduction
3
Dryden and the theatrical imagination
15
Dryden and the energies of satire
37
Druden and the imperial imagination
59
Dryden and the invention of Augustan culture
75
Drydens triplets
92
Drydens London
113
Drydens theatre and the passions of politics
131
Courting and complying with danger
197
Dryden and patronage
199
Dryden and political allegiance
221
The piety of John Dryden
237
Drydens Fables and the judgment of art
259
Dryden and the problem of literary modernity epilogue
280
Further reading
286
Index
290

Drydens anonmity
156
Dryden and the modes of Restoration sociability
181

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Steven N. Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor of Humanities at Washington University, St. Louis and Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of History. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650-1740 (Cambridge, 1998), Reading, Society, and Politics in Early Modern England, ed. with Kevin Sharpe (Cambridge, 2003), John Dryden: Selected Poems (2001), Refiguring Revolutions, ed. with Kevin Sharpe (1998), Lines of Authority (1993), Politics of Discourse, ed. with Kevin Sharpe (1987) and Politics and Language in Dryden's Poetry (1984).

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