Literature and the politics of the family in seventeenth-century England / Su Fang Ng.

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Ng, Su Fang

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511269838
051126853X
9780511268533
051126920X
9780511269202
9780511269837
9780511270390
0511270399
9780511483837
051148383X
1280750723
9781280750724
0521123720
9780521123723
9780511320668
0511320663
1107171628
9781107171626

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and the politics of family in seventeenth-century England.DDC classification:

820.9003 22

LOC classification:

PR408.F35 N4 2007eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: strange bedfellows -- patriarchalism and revolutionary thought; PART I Revolutionary debates; CHAPTER 1 Father-kings and Amazon queens; CHAPTER 2 Milton's band of brothers; CHAPTER 3 Hobbes and the absent family; CHAPTER 4 Cromwellian fatherhood and its discontents; PART II Restoration imaginings; Interchapter: revolutionary legacies; CHAPTER 5 Execrable sons and second Adams: family politics in Paradise Lost; CHAPTER 6 Marriage and monarchy: Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World and the fictions of queenly rule.

Summary: An insightful study of how metaphors of the family were used in seventeenth-century literary and political rhetoric.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

An insightful study of how metaphors of the family were used in seventeenth-century literary and political rhetoric.