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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age.
This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Names and Dates
Abbreviations and Conventions
Contributors
PART I INTRODUCTION
1: Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker: Writing the Stuart Restoration: Political Time, Cultural Time, and Literary Periodicity
PART II FASHIONING THE RESTORATION
2: David F. Taylor: The Theatre of Politics and the Politics of Theatre
3: David Alff: Restoration Panegyric
4: Edward Holberton: Acts of Indemnity and Oblivion: 'This Excellent Art of Forgetfulness'
5: Phil Connell: Remembering the Civil Wars
6: Kate Bennett: Restoration Life Writing and the Arts of Assembly
7: Michael Mascuch: C. 22-23 April 1661, &c: or, The Diary Method of Restoration Sovereignty
PART III THE INSTITUTIONS OF LITERARY CULTURE
8: Robert D. Hume: Plays and Players, Playhouses and Playgoers
9: Julia Fawcett: Celebrity and the Restoration Actress
10: Richard McCabe: Patronage
11: John Barnard: Censorship and the Regulation of the Press: 1660-1695
12: Margaret J. M. Ezell: Authorship and the Book Trade
13: Martin Dzelzainis: Scribal Culture and Literary Sociability: Marvell and Etherege in Manuscript
14: Michael Gavin: Literary Criticism of the Restoration
PART IV WRITERS AT THE CENTRE
15: Gillian Wright: 'For the Bays Designed': Waller, Cowley, Philips
16: Tom Lockwood: Dryden and Congreve (and Milton and Jonson)
17: James Loxley: Cleveland's Ghosts: Butler, Marvell, and Restoration Satire
18: Erin Murphy: Imagining It Was Otherwise: Cavendish and Milton
19: Katherine Mannheimer: 'Voice Made up of Harmony': Rochester and Behn
20: David Roberts: True Comedy? Etherege, Wycherley, Shadwell
21: David Parry: Grace Abounding: Baxter and Bunyan
22: Blair Hoxby: The Experimental Theatre of Lee and Otway
23: Nigel Smith: The Power of Letters: John Locke and Lady Damaris Masham
PART V BODIES POLITIC
24: Niall Allsopp: The Body Politic in the Literary Imagination
25: Thomas A. King: From the Body Politic to Biopolitics
26: Laura J. Rosenthal: Scandalous Bodies in the Restoration
PART VI RESTORATION SPIRITUALITIES
27: Elizabeth Sauer: Negotiating Nonconformity: Arts and Animadversions
28: Tessie Prakas: Women, Prayer, and Prophecy
29: Alison Shell: Catholic Writing in the Restoration: Mission, Tradition, Opposition
PART VII PHILOSOPHY AND NATURAL SCIENCE
30: Mordechai Feingold: The Royal Society and Literate Culture
31: Helen Thompson: Restoration Science and Literary Representation in a Global Context
32: Claire Preston: 'Affections of Matter': Empirical Description in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
PART VIII BORDER-CROSSINGS
33: Henry Power: Traffic with the Ancients
34: Robert Phiddian: Restoration Parody and Plagiarism
35: Lines Cottegnies: Imitation and Admiration, Fear and Loathing: France in the English Imagination
36: Rajani Sudan: Stuart Britannia and the Worlding of Empire
PART IX ''TIS WELL AN OLD AGE IS OUT': RESTORATION ENDINGS
37: Christopher D'Addario: Affect and Uncertainty: Writing the Glorious Revolution
38: Paul K. Monod: Jacobite Literatures
39: Paul Davis: When Did the Restoration End?
