Feigned commonwealths : the country-house poem and the fashioning of the ideal community /
Jenkins, Hugh,1958-
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258) and index.
Acknowledgments -- "That he which can faine a common-wealth": fashioning the ideal community -- From common wealth to commonwealth: the alchemy of "to Penshurst" -- The cavalier country house -- Puritan revisions: Milton's Comus and Marvell's "Upon Appleton house" -- Petitions for absolute retreat: genre and gender in the country-house poems of Aemilia Lanyer and Ann Finch -- Building the colonial country house: Robinson Crusoe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
English poetry
Country homes in literature.
Politics and literature
Politics and literature
English poetry
Literature and society
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
Community life in literature.
Social values in literature.
State, The, in literature.